The IRS has actively sabotaged incarcerated people's efforts to get $1200 stimulus checks they're entitled to under the CARES Act. This includes not only misleading people about how to get checks—saying to file on paper not online but then processing only online filings—but also

giving conflicting/inconsistent advice (see above), admittedly "ignoring" inquiries from class counsel for incarcerated people about how to get checks (screenshot 1), making people jump through ID verification hoops that are literally impossible in prison (screenshot 2), shutting

down the online portal (the only viable option, apparently) before the agreed date, and in some cases sending $$ to prisons even when people inside requested the use of a home address outside the prison.

As an added layer, prisons across the US did their best to make it impossible—spreading misinformation, withholding forms, not notifying (or not timely notifying) people about checks or other correspondence from the IRS.

Systematic sabotaging of access to stimulus money is yet another form of state extraction and economic violence targeting people who are incarcerated.

People across the US are organizing around this to do everything they can to get money to their loved ones and comrades inside—and will continue to do so. Now, many people inside will be owed both a $1200 check and a $600 check.

There's no tidy conclusion here, but stay tuned, and when the time comes (soon!), help out with a local effort to get people inside the money they're due.