Myself(and my wife) both combined earnings are less than $10,000 never mind $150,000 but we filed jointly and were told to expect only $600

Relatives of ours also who earn way way less than the limit also filed jointly and were told to expect only $600

If you go on the official irs website and use their calculator type in your info off your tax retuns there is no way you can get the calculator to tell you your getting $1200 as a married couple filing jointly UNLESS you tell it you have children or some form of child tax credit etc, thats the only way the calculator ever tells you your getting over $600

So what is this crap, why does everywhere in the news and on yahoo keep telling us couples will get $1200 but no couple i now has been told they are getting more than $600 unless they have kids etc and are getting the extra $300 per child but still only the basic $600 for them

Which if you ask me is very strange

Maybe im wrong maybe we will get the $1200 but i doubt it!!
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Well as to some poeples answers, i ran the calculator on their site all it asks is how much income you have earned doesnt ask for anything else other than income, then asks for your kids or not and any tax credits

No combination of any value of income or any combination of numbers creates a payment expected of $1200

And i can also say we paid a dam site more than $1200 in taxes over the last year from both of us working so that doesnt have nothing to do with it either

It doesnt matter if you type 4k 7k 10k 15k 20k 30k 50k or anything as the income value it never calculates to give you $1200 as the rebate so i cannot figure out how and who would get the $1200

I do agree that they are being very missleading and using the keyword UPTO but i have seen way more people getting or expectig tog et $600 than those expectign the full $1200