Let's fuckin go man, wooOoOoOo! Consumerist stripper frenzy! We can meet up in Mission Valley, raid my office for "supplies," and then head on down.

@Orv: Cool. Thanks.

Harry "wants my 900 smackers" Wang

So is it $600 per taxpayer or $300? Qualifying kids add another $300? I read something on this but then heard contradictory accounts from people who talked to their (supposed)accountants.

Harry "needs new roller skates" Wang

Har!

@Assimilation:

Unless the Fair Tax Fairies have their way. Then those sweet, sweet untaxed Roth proceeds start to shrivel and turn sour.

So Monday is when we get to start watching the stimulus money not really change anything at all?

My check will pay for my upcoming car and renters insurance, then the rest is going to pay off the credit card.

wow, now i can get my gas tank half fulled, and also mow my lawn.....

Thank you for Chimpeach. That just cast a small but effective ray of sunshine into my day.

Mine is going right into savings until I need to take a hammer to the piggy bank.

Most of mine is going to save for a down payment....but some of it will be paying off the last of my student loans.

The heavens will part and a chorus of angels will harmoniously sing once I click on that "Make Payment" button for the last time.

$500 to savings and $100 for fun is my plan.

@Kwik80:

Cool beans. My regular refund was direct deposited.

Now, whose SSN will it go by? My husband and I filed jointly. His name was first on the tax form. Will we get two checks, or one bigger one as a couple?

@radleyas:

The original schedule had the first round of payments going out on May 2 for people who had Social Security numbers ending between 00 and 20, and then a new group every week (21-75 on May 9, and 76-99 on May 16), going by the article, I'm not sure if they're just going to push everyone up a week, or do the first group on Monday, then the next on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the last group on Friday, or something like that. Note too that if you didn't have your tax refund direct deposited, you still have to wait for a paper check (though they'll be sending those out earlier than expected too)

@Falconfire:
It goes buy social security number, I believe. The last 2 digits I think.

Or I guess you could stick the check under your mattress.

When will the direct deposits start??

If it wasn't for Bush we wouldn't have this extra money. He's the best President ever! I wish we could re-elect him for eight more years! Imagine total world domination! USA USA USA!!!

Free money.... Since when?

What kind of rate did the Chinese give us on the money our government is using for the "stimulus" payments?

Sorry, US economy, get your stimulus from someone else.