Where can I find more information about stimulus checks?
In the recent stimulus package passed by President Obama earlier this year, otherwise known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Obama provided many forms of stimulus and stimulus checks to provide the economy. The only mentions of a 2009 stimulus check for the American public were in two places in the recently passed Stimulus bill. The first is a 2009 stimulus check for those on social security incomes, military pensions and railroad pensions. This is a $250 2009 stimulus check that is a one time payment similar to the 2008 stimulus check that President Bush issued last year. To qualify for the 2009 stimulus check you had to have already been on social security by the end of 2008 to receive your 2009 stimulus check in May 2009. If you started your social security income January 1, 2009 or later you do not qualify for this years stimulus check. However if there is a 2010 stimulus check similar to how the 2009 stimulus check worked you would qualify next year for that
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ These are tough times. Almost everyone with a job knows of someone who has been laid off. Folks on fixed incomes – retirees, the poor, the disabled – worry what Congress may do to government assistance programs. Against this backdrop, Social Security recipients just learned that they will not get a cost-of-living increase next year. The freeze in their monthly checks will be the first since automatic Social Security cost-of-living triggers were adopted in 1975. The increases are tied to the Consumer Price Index, or CPI. About 57 million Americans receive such checks monthly. They include seniors, poor people on Supplemental Security Income, veterans and the disabled. The Social Security freeze has stirred a frenzy in Washington. Democrats and Republicans in Congress, many of whom face re-election in 2010, are piling behind President Barack Obama’s plan to send seniors another round of $250 payments. Similar one-time checks were awarded to Social Security recipients e
