{"id":10630,"date":"2025-12-11T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=10630"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:58:14","slug":"fact-check-stimulus-payments-irs-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=10630","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check! Stimulus Payments, IRS D"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Confusion about supposed stimulus checks, IRS \u201crelief deposits,\u201d and \u201ctariff dividends\u201d has grown due to misleading posts and headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest rumor claims a new federal stimulus will arrive in December 2025, but this is false. As the article states, \u201cthis program does not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No new law has been passed, and the government is not preparing national payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of the misunderstanding comes from things being misrepresented as new aid:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRoutine tax refunds,\u201d \u201cunclaimed pandemic-era credits,\u201d and \u201cstate-level relief programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are real processes, but none are new federal stimulus checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another viral claim says the IRS will issue a $2,000 payment, but the article notes there<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is \u201cno new $2,000 payment,\u201d only a move toward using direct deposit for regular refunds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tariff dividends discussed politically are also not real payments\u2014\u201cno plan exists for distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short: no new stimulus, no $2,000 IRS deposit, and no tariff payouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confusion about supposed stimulus checks, IRS \u201crelief deposits,\u201d and \u201ctariff dividends\u201d has grown due to misleading posts and headlines. The biggest rumor claims a new federal stimulus will arrive in December 2025, but this is false. As the article states, \u201cthis program does not exist.\u201d No new law has been passed, and the government is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10632,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions\/10632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}