Sometimes the abuser is unilaterally filing a joint return and pocketing both stimulus checks.
While millions of Americans have saved, spent or invested their stimulus checks, some domestic-violence survivors have found themselves deprived of the financial lifeline and often saddled with the knowledge that their abuser has the money.
Without access to the money they’re entitled to, some survivors are forced to rely on their abusers’ financial support to support their children — and, Passi said, they worry that could one day be used against them in court. “The pandemic has caused many survivors to fall further into debt and placed even more limitations on their ability to financially seek safety from abuse and harm,” she told MarketWatch in an email.
“My ex-husband claimed me as a dependent on his taxes even though I made $11,000 of my own money in 2019, and provided child care for our toddler,” said another. “Now we are separated, and not only did I not receive any of the tax return, but I wasn’t eligible for the stimulus check either.” A national COVID-19 economic-impact survey of 608 U.S. direct-service providers conducted by the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice and other partner organizations, meanwhile, estimated that about 40% of domestic and sexual-violence survivors served by those groups had mentioned concerns about stimulus checks.
‘One more way the abuser is exerting control’ As it quickly cut stimulus checks, the IRS looked at 2019 tax returns to determine eligibility. If those returns weren’t yet filed, it looked at 2018 returns. Even if someone missed the deadline, Rossner said they could still mail in a return and a letter explaining the circumstances. This would at least trigger an IRS review of the original return and give a survivor an opportunity to dispute the first return’s validity, she said.
The Cortez Masto letter contained recommendations, including a dedicated hotline where survivors could report misdirected stimulus checks, guidance about superseding returns and public explanations telling taxpayers what they should do if they aren’t with their spouse anymore. “The delivery of these stimulus payments directly into the hands of domestic violence survivors is vital to their safety and wellbeing,” Cortez Masto told MarketWatch in a statement. “I’ll continue to do everything I can to push this administration to prioritize payments to survivors of domestic violence so they receive the payments they are legally entitled to.”
Economic and financial control can be just as debilitating as physical abuse, Karma Cottman, the executive director of Ujima, Inc.: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community, told MarketWatch. “You pile on this public-health emergency, and it exacerbates the ways in which an abuser can exact financial control and economic abuse,” she said.
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