Stimulus
Government financial aid or economic relief
Latest stories
-
Fact-check: Can Trump give Americans $5,000 if Republicans win midterms?
“I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000,” President Donald Trump said, adding: “If the Republicans win. You win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the ‘Trump dividend.’”
-
Beware: Scammers exploit IRS COVID Tax Credit, targeting 1 million eligible taxpayers
Scammers are exploiting the IRS's recent initiative to distribute unclaimed $1,400 Recovery Rebate Credits to eligible taxpayers.
-
IRS is sending out automatic stimulus payments. Who is getting them?
The IRS is distributing about $2.4 billion to taxpayers who didn't receive their COVID stimulus payments. By the end of January, approximately 1 million taxpayers will receive special payments of up to $1,400 from the IRS.
-
Fact check: Biden says Obama spent 'hundreds of millions' to bury Florida power lines
After Hurricane Idalia knocked out power to about a half million northern Florida homes and businesses in late August, President Joe Biden said it would have been worse if the federal government hadn't improved the state's electrical grid.
-
School districts spending millions of dollars to address COVID learning loss
Students across the state have struggled during the past two years. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted school closures that lasted a year or longer for some students--forcing many to try to navigate virtual learning, sometimes in the absence of working parents. Some students with developmental delays weren't able to get the same level of attention they might have received in person.
-
Tutors, tests, coaches and summer school: NC schools earmark big money to combat learning loss
Test scores create a bleak picture of pandemic-era student learning, but federal cash is prompting potentially $1 billion toward learning recovery in the state.
-
Auditors: NC education officials didn't review more than $300M in schools' stimulus plans
The department struggled, in part, because billions of stimulus dollars came through the department, which at the time, had the same number of employees as it normally does.
-
Under pressure from Congress, IRS moves to address delays caused by backlog
North Carolina's 13 members of the U.S. House are among more than 170 congressmembers to sign on to a letter calling for action at the IRS, where leaders are scrambling to address a colossal backlog that's affecting taxpayers across the country.
-
Fact check: Does Biden want the IRS to 'monitor every single' bank transaction?
Conservative commentator Candace Owens tweeted "the Biden administration is attempting to empower the IRS to monitor every single withdrawal, deposit, and transaction you make from your personal banking accounts, PayPal, Venmo, etc.." PolitiFact checks her claim.
-
Fact check: Sanders says Biden stimulus cut childhood poverty in half
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said on an August tour to Republican-led states that the American Rescue Plan cut U.S. childhood poverty in half. PolitiFact checks his claim.
-
NC State Board of Education OKs $10M for food service workers, other plans for federal stimulus money
Plans for most of the state's billions of dollars in aid has yet to be approved.
-
North Carolina awaiting federal approval for use of latest education stimulus funds
Nationwide, 17 state plans have been approved, out of 42 state plans submitted.
-
Billions in federal COVID money came North Carolina's way. Where's it going now?
The state is tracking roughly $81 billion in federal pandemic stimulus spending - so much that it started a new office last year to keep up with everything.
-
DPI to hire employees to administer K-12 stimulus funds
DPI to hire employees to administer K-12 stimulus funds
-
39 million families set to get monthly child tax credit payments starting in July
The Treasury Department said Monday that 39 million families are set to receive monthly child payments beginning on July 15.
-
More stimulus money is on the way for people who lost their jobs last year
The Internal Revenue Service started sending what it calls "plus-up" payments last week to people who are owed a bigger stimulus check based on their actual 2020 income than they initially received.
-
Will we have another round of stimulus?
President Biden's agenda is full, but some are saying that another round of stimulus checks is possible.
-
$1,400 stimulus checks arrive in bank accounts. Here's how to check the status of your payment
Relief money promised under the American Rescue Plan will hit the bank accounts of many Americans Wednesday -- the first official payment date -- though some financial institutions chose to make the cash available to people even before it arrived from the government.
-
Fact check: Democrats, like Republicans, sent stimulus checks to prisoners
Republicans complain that the Democrats' stimulus package sends checks to prisoners. The two previous rounds of stimulus checks during the Trump administration -- in the CARES Act in March, and the supplemental package in December -- allowed prisoners to receive checks, too.
-
What are Triangle residents doing with their $1400 stimulus?
Have you checked your bank account? Some North Carolinians have already received their third stimulus check worth $1400 over the weekend.
-
Fact-checking 7 Biden claims on the stimulus, vaccine rollout
Hours after President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, he gave his first prime-time presidential address to mark the anniversary of shutdowns across the nation -- and to give Americans hope that the pandemic-era losses would soon come to an end.
-
Stimulus checks could come quickly, but the jobless may have a wait for unemployment benefits
The $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill that President Joe Biden championed even before taking office is expected to land on his desk in coming days, but it could take some time for struggling Americans to see all the benefits.
-
Congress sends $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package to Biden's desk
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan, paving the way for President Joe Biden to sign his top legislative priority into law later this week and deliver aid to most American households amid the pandemic.
-
'Be the good news:' Pledge My Check helps stimulus check recipients pay it forward
As Congress contemplates another round of economic stimulus, a Raleigh group is hoping many of the beneficiaries will consider paying it forward.
-
Here's what's in the Senate stimulus plan
The Senate on Thursday released its version of the Democrats' massive coronavirus relief package, after the House passed its package last week.
