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Thu Mar 26, 2020, 02:40 PM Mar 2020

Honestly, I'd rather not [View all]

The stimulus passed by Congress is aimed to help the unemployed and businesses losing business.

But for retirees who have not lost any source of income, whose Social Security checks do come (so far) and some of them are stuck with high RMD's even though the value of their retirement funds is dropping - I'd rather not have this check that is taxable.

Yes, I suppose many would love to have this problem but I'd rather have our proposed $2400 check go to someone who really can use it.


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