Monday, December 23

Congress faces a deadline to pass a third stimulus check

El Congreso enfrenta una fecha límite para aprobar un tercer cheque de estímulo

Biden’s stimulus package must be approved by the full House and then the Senate.

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Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee (one of the panels that control government finances) approved a bill that includes a third economic stimulus check. Despite this progress on this issue, still lacks the vote of the plenary session of the Chamber, which was scheduled to take place during the week of 14 February .

After voting and passed in the House of Representatives, the bill will have to pass in the Senate, where Democrats have the narrowest majority.

The President of the Senate, Nancy Pelosi, says her goal is to have a bill ready for the president to sign just before millions of Americans lose their unemployment benefits on 14 of March. And it is that, on this date, it is when a round of additional economic support that is being given expires, according to Yahoo .

If everything goes according to plan, and Biden signs the bill during the first part March, the IRS would need just a few days to begin reissuing the third stimulus check payments . And that means you could receive yours around the middle of March.

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