April 15 is deadline for some to claim $1,400 IRS stimulus check. Here's who's eligible.

The Internal Revenue Service announced successful December that astir $2.4 cardinal successful stimulus checks − worthy up to $1,400 per idiosyncratic − would beryllium distributed to eligible U.S. taxpayers who did not assertion the Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2021 taxation returns.

Payments were automatically sent retired earlier this twelvemonth to qualifying individuals who filed their 2021 taxation returns, but implicit $1 cardinal successful refunds were inactive unclaimed owed to individuals who had not filed their 2021 taxation returns yet, the bureau said April 11.

The IRS antecedently recovered much than 1 cardinal eligible taxpayers failed to assertion the Recovery Rebate Credit, a refundable recognition for individuals who did not person 1 oregon much Economic Impact Payments besides known arsenic stimulus checks, erstwhile filing their returns successful 2022.

Here's what to cognize astir the $1,400 payment, including details connected whether oregon not you whitethorn beryllium eligible to assertion it.

Individuals who are eligible for the Recovery Rebate Credit but person not yet filed a 2021 taxation instrumentality person until April 15, 2025, to record and person the payment. (April 15, 2025, is besides the deadline to record your 2024 taxation returns.)

The IRS said 1.1 cardinal radical had not filed their 2021 taxation returns and could beryllium eligible for the outgo of up to $1,400.

Eligible individuals indispensable record a taxation instrumentality to assertion a Recovery Rebate Credit, adjacent if their income from a job, concern oregon different root was minimal oregon non-existent.

The Recovery Rebate Credit was created to compensate individuals who did not person 1 oregon much stimulus checks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The IRS antecedently issued 3 rounds of stimulus payments passim the COVID-19 pandemic, which means astir eligible individuals person already received stimulus payments and won't beryllium eligible to assertion the RRC.

Those who did not person the afloat magnitude of the 3rd stimulus check, sent in March 2021, whitethorn beryllium eligible for the Recovery Rebate Credit connected their 2021 taxation return. The bureau has antecedently urged taxpayers not to see accusation astir the archetypal 2 checks sent successful 2020, nor the 2020 Recovery Rebate Credit, connected their 2021 taxation returns.

The IRS has been issuing the peculiar batch of payments to those who were eligible for Recovery Rebate Credit but did not assertion it connected their 2021 taxation instrumentality oregon failed to record taxes for 2021. The deadline to record the 2021 instrumentality successful hopes of receiving the outgo is April 15, 2025.