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IRS to Provide U.S. Territories With Information on Social Security Recipients in Effort to Hasten Delivery of Stimulus Checks

The Social Security Administration on Friday said it would start providing beneficiary information to the Internal Revenue Service in a move aimed at hastening delivery of stimulus checks for persons in the U.S. territories receiving Social Security. While special rules apply to beneficiaries living in the U.S. territories, including American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Social Security Administration is making a special effort to help expedite the release of stimulus checks to its beneficiaries who don't reside on the mainland. Governor Albert Bryan has on multiple occasions encouraged persons on Social Security to file their 2018 taxes — even if they owe no money to the government — so that the V.I. Bureau of Internal Revenue could use the information to release stimulus checks to Social Security recipients living in the territory. “The Social Security Administration has been working with the IRS to provide the necessary ...