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We now know when you can expect your coronavirus relief payment to arrive.

Direct deposit will start on April 9, a week sooner than Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin previously anticipated.


If you don’t have direct deposit on file, there will be an online portal where you can add your information. The IRS hasn’t set that up yet, but once it does, you’ll be able to access it here.

If you don’t provide direct deposit information, you may have to wait a while for your payment. We’ve listed a full payment schedule below, so keep reading.


A Treasury spokesperson told The Hill Thursday that 50 to 70 million people will get their payments by direct deposit before April 15, with “most” eligible Americans receiving their payments in the next three weeks.

A recap of how much money you’ll be getting:

If your adjusted gross income (AGI) on your last tax return was under $75,000, you’ll get $1,200.

If you filed jointly and your AGI is under $150,000, you’ll get $2,400.

If you filed as head of household and had an AGI under $112,500, you’ll get $1,200.

For every dependent age 16 or younger in your household, you’ll get $500. If you have adult dependents or students in college, you won’t get a payment for them.

If your most recent AGI was between $75,000 and $99,000, you’ll get less than $1,200, but you’ll still get a payment. The same goes joint filers with an AGI between $150,000 and $198,000 and heads of households with an AGI between $112,500 and $146,500—you’ll get less than a full payment, but you’ll get something. You can use a relief check calculator like this one

If you had an AGI of more than $99,000 (single people), $198,000 (joint filers) or $146,500 (head of household), you won’t get anything.

Here’s the schedule for when paper checks will be mailed, according to a memo obtained by the Washington Post Thursday. It goes by income level:



If you earned less than $20,000: May 1

$30,000: May 8

$40,000: May 15

$50,000: May 22

$60,000: May 29

$70,000: June 5

$80,000: June 12

$90,000: June 19

$100,000: June 26

$110,000: July 3

$120,000: July 10

$130,000: July 17

$140,000: July 24

$150,000: July 31

$160,000: August 7

$170,000: August 14

$180,000: August 21

$190,000: August 28

$198,000: September 4


You don’t have to do anything to get your payment as long as you have filed a tax return for 2018 or 2019. If you receive Social Security or railroad retirement benefits and don’t typically file a tax return, you don’t have to do anything. It was previously announced that you would have to file a return, but the Treasury has removed that requirement; the IRS will instead use your benefit payment information to generate your relief payment.

