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Letter from Chuck Schumer
Dear Mr. Marincic:
Thank you very much for your letter regarding the recently passed economic stimulus package. I wholeheartedly agree that the stimulus checks should only go to legal American taxpayers.
As a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which had jurisdiction over the economic stimulus package, I worked with other committee members to ensure that the stimulus checks only went to American citizens. Workers in the United States who are not full-fledged citizens are issued a Taxpayer Identification Number in order to file a tax return. This is different from a Social Security number, which is issued to immigrants only when they become official U.S. citizens. In order to qualify for the stimulus checks, taxpayers must file their 2007 returns using a Social Security number, not a Taxpayer Identification Number. This requirement was added in the Senate Finance Committee and enacted into law as part of the stimulus bill. As a result, all of the stimulus checks, which the IRS will begin issuing on May 2, will only go to American citizens who filed a tax return for 2007.
Again, thank you for contacting me on this important issue. Please do not hesitate to contact me again if I may be of assistance on this, or any other matter.
Sincerely,
Charles E. Schumer
United States Senator"Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country"-John F. Kennedy
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