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Stimulus Check: Americans are Receiving $600 and $1,200 Payments. Will You Receive One?

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Many Americans will be shocked to see how much money has been deposited into their accounts in a few days. People who don’t expect checks in the amounts of $600 and $1,200 are receiving them.

The Department of Agriculture will hand out these checks to a certain group. For example, a $700 million plan includes farmworkers and meatpackers, and some grocery store employees.

The goal is to assist staff who were crucial during the pandemic’s peak period with financial aid. However, the amount of money given to grocery store workers has yet to be determined.

Read More: Here’s How an Additional $1,400 Social Security Checks Can Help Recipients Afford Rising Grocery Costs

This check has nothing to do with the IRS. Instead, the federal government, municipalities, and nonprofit organizations are in charge of it. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is in charge of distributing the money.

“We recognize that our farmworkers, meatpackers, and grocery employees overcame unprecedented difficulties to make sure that Americans could eat and sustain their families during the epidemic,” Vilsack said.

12 Comments
  1. Susanna Gosk says

    This is not fair that the people who are on disability and social security will not qualified too receive a fourth stimulus check. I am struggling financially. I am 62 years old a widow and I don’t make enough to pay my bills. I own a house with a mortgage and a home equity loan. I am behind in my bills. I am 80lbs. I am lucky to put food on my table. You all are forgetting about us and it is a shame.

  2. Robin Robinson says

    I think all senior citizens deserve a check like the kids do

  3. Vickie Blalock says

    Yes I draw SSI I only get 794.00 a month am I getting extra help

  4. Vickie Blalock says

    I need help with anything I can get help with

  5. Carolyn Smith says

    I have not received my 3rd stimulus check and I am on SSI

  6. Vicki Giesenhagen says

    How do you find out if you can get this? I worked for Walmart during the pandemic and am still working.

  7. Deborah says

    I would like to know what they are going to do for the rest of us. Is a lot more people than them worked through the pandemic and they don’t get shit. I think that if you’re gonna give it to some of the people give it to all of us.

  8. Vee says

    Whoa, what about us people working in medical?!!

  9. Joy Canning says

    The farm workers, meat packers and grocery store workers have been all so very important during this Pandemic! I am also grateful for the delivery people that have brought me groceries and prepared meals!

  10. Melissa Turpin says

    What about the company’s who kept the stores stock with drinks. Someone had to make them. So these drink companies never shut down they kept running and put their families at wrest as well. The grocery store couldn’t stay open without food or drinks.

  11. Sam smith says

    How about the ones building the tractors during and through the whole virus epidemic?

  12. Deborah says

    The disabled and seniors are the ones in the US that need help! Not the illegals or those who have full time jobs!

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