About 1 million people in the United States are due to receive the payment, the IRS said. Do you qualify? Checks could be up to $1,400.

“Most taxpayers eligible for EIPs have already received their EIP or Recovery Rebate Credit,” the website noted. “Qualified taxpayers are those who filed a 2021 tax return, but where the data field for the Recovery Rebate Credit was left blank or was filled out as $0 when the taxpayer was actually eligible for the credit.”

Eligible U.S. taxpayers might receive a stimulus check by the end of January if they missed claiming the Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2021 tax return, according to the IRS. This initiative aims to ensure that individuals who did not receive their Economic Impact Payments are compensated.

U.S. taxpayers may be in line to receive a stimulus check by the end of January if they did not claim the Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2021 tax return, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.