Stimulus checks

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@sjrcpa wrote:

Apparently nothing. The law says you don't have to repay if you got too much.

 

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Not necessarily.  There is no repayment if you received a proper Advance credit, but I don't think that means the IRS can't take back an improper Advance credit.

They got married in 2019

@IRonMaN "I still say this would have been handled more efficiently if they would have just drove down the highway, throwing cash out of the back of a pickup truck."

Get with it, Boomer.  Climate change is going to kill us slowly even if the virus doesn't kill us quickly.  They have drones these days that run on electricity, renewable energy in many places.  Drop the money from the sky.  

As for the question under consideration:  Bob and Carol celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2018, then Bob died.  Ted and Alice, likewise, then Alice died.  All of them were collecting Social Security and filing joint returns.  Carol and Ted met and married at the Senior Center in 2019.   I would be surprised if we did NOT hear about such a case. 

Maybe it wasn't at the Senior Center.  I had clients for many years, a married couple who met at the cemetery where they saw each other every Sunday visiting their late spouses' graves.