You can rattle it around in the attic of your mouth…
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Spent 20 minutes trying to get connected to a zoom call through eventbrite. Failed. Beyond annoyed, eventbrite wasted my time AND I didn’t get to attend the conference.
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No, they are backed up, and the first appointment isn’t for a couple of weeks. I did get an appointment at AAA for only a couple days after the license expires, but I need to bring all the completed paperwork, which the app was supposed to point me to if I couldn’t just renew on-line. I’m sure I can find the relevant paperwork some other way, but it’s annoying, all the same.
She said ‘digest it,’ which I guess happens in the basement of the mouth?
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I’ve had bad luck with eventbrite, too.
We committed to taking in two kids over thanksgiving for respite (fostering babysitting). Our agency keeps calling us with placements and when we say “well if we get this placement, what will happen to the kids we are doing respite for?” They would need to find them another home to stay with and then they act like we are crazy for caring about the commitment we made.
They don’t get any extra money for us doing respite. They DO get more money if they get more kids placed with families like ours. Maybe I’m cynical for thinking that’s a big part of the reason they don’t care too much about these kids’ feelings about being abandoned for a major family holiday.
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I almost wrote “flushed out” instead of “fleshed out” in an email! Good thing I caught it before hitting send!!!
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Most people probably wouldn’t know flushed out is wrong!
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I have a lot of annoyed thoughts today.
We just got the $1,400 stimulus check for our foster kid after our tax issues were resolved. But we aren’t planning to claim him on our 2021 taxes because he was reunified in mid-July and even though we have a legal right to claim him, we figure his family who is currently raising him should get to. Plus we had him from late May 2020 through mid July 2021. Technically more than six months in both calendar years but it didn’t feel right to claim him for two tax years just because it fell that way.
Anyway now I’m going to owe $1,400 back at tax time, which is annoying.
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That was probably confusing. We claimed him on 2020 taxes because he was still living with us at that time. Had to file on paper and wait several months for our return to be accepted because his grandmother also claimed him, without a right to.
So we collected stimulus money from 2020, but since he was reunified in July 2021, we never planned to collect any 2021 tax money on him. I don’t think we can take the stimulus (which was issued when we did have him) without claiming him on our full 2021 taxes. But I’m not sure…and anyway we feel his family ought to have that money anyway, so holding onto it is a hassle.
No you don’t. If the IRS sent you an Economic Impact Payment in error you get to keep it.
Technically you are supposed to pay it back if you get it for a person who was deceased the entire year, but they’re way too overwhelmed to even chase that down. If they gave the kid’s stimulus to the wrong caregiver there’s not even a mechanism for paying that back… they don’t even want it back.
His family can claim him in 2021 and get the stimulus on their 2021 return, and you still get to keep the stimulus money they already sent you. They’ll get it too. Double dipping is totally allowed with kids and stimulus money. They never figured out a way to make it fair for all the unmarried parents who claim kids every other year, so the solution is essentially that both parents get the money.
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I won’t have to report it on my taxes next year? Interesting.
Still not going to spend it. Might put it toward the next placement or a college fund or something.
That’s so wasteful! Although I’m really not surprised that’s how it ends up working.
We did NOT accept any child tax credit payments (for him or our kids). That I’m more certain we would have owed back at tax time if we didn’t claim him for the year.
Nope! Congress threw way too many curve balls at them with way too little guidance to make all this come out right, so it doesn’t.
Want to hear something even more bonkers? Married couples can do this too. If you & hubby filed separately in 2020 and you took your kid and they sent the kid’s stimulus to you, then file separately again in 2021 and have hubby claim the kid and they’ll give hubby the stimulus too.
Or if you filed jointly in 2020 then you could file separately in 2021 and load the kids on one return and get half the stimulus again. Except that won’t work in your case because half of 2 is all of one.
But take a hypothetical couple with one kid. They didn’t know any better so they filed jointly in 2020. Too late to do anything about that… you can’t amend from joint to separate. So their third stimulus (if they’re under the phase-out) was $1,400 * 3 = $4,200. Technically that means they each got $2,100.
Now for 2021 they file separately. Whichever parent claims the kid is entitled to $2,800 of stimulus. But they only received $2,100. So they get $700 of additional stimulus on their 2021 return.
If they’d filed separately in 2020 and they switch the kid in 2021 to the other parent it’d be the full $1,400.
Yes, that’s totally bonkers. But true.
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Yeah, I think the Advanced Child Tax Credit payments would have reduced the Child Tax Credit on your biological child, so there would have been no advantage.
But if you didn’t have any children then I think you could’ve just pocketed the money.
Basically the formula is MAX(0, E - R)
Where E is what you’re entitled to and R is what you received. If you received more than you’re entitled to then you won the lottery.
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There’s 2 new holes in my backyard!
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Tell those darned kids to stay off yer lawn!!! 
Insomnia.
You are welcome 
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