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This is being reported by WLS-TV in Chicago:
[Taxpayer] said when she checked payment status for her stimulus check on the IRS website, the alert told her it was deposited into a different bank account. She said the account was never on file and never attached to any W-2 or other tax forms.
"I didn't know what was going on because I had never seen never had an account that ended in 2772," she told the I-Team. "I tried to call IRS, and none of the numbers on the website. I couldn't get through to any of the numbers."
She said her tax preparer told her that the Treasury Department made a mistake and deposited her money into her tax preparer's bank account.
Her tax preparer. . . verified the issue and said it happened to at least 300 of her clients.
"The money went to the banks that service the tax preparation companies, it never went to the tax payers bank accounts," she explained. "They are left waiting and I am upset."
[The preparer] said the money is being sent back from the wrong bank to the Treasury Department; then her clients should eventually get their money.
