Some say typing trick could help you get stimulus check faster

[SheltieLover]

https://wreg.com/news/some-say-typing-trick-could-be-key-to-getting-stimulus-check-faster/

COULD CAPS LOCK BE THE KEY?

But there appears to be a way to get the info you want and circumvent the delays, a little trick an L.A. Times reporter said she tried and others have tried, too.

When putting in your address on the get my payment page of irs.gov, enter your address in all caps.

It seems that puts you right through to enter your bank information, allowing you to get your stimulus check directly deposited into your account.

Those who have tried it say it works.

More at link, but this is the important part for those who can't get into the system. Ihope it works. 😊😉👍

[Wednesdays]

1. K&R. nt

[SheltieLover]

2. Thx, Wednesday. 👍

[Hekate]

3. KnR

[SheltieLover]

5. TY, Hekate

[Cicada]

4. It works because it matches your tax return address

To enter the site you must match your tax return address exactly.

I bet the tax return has the address all caps and entering small caps doesn’t create MATCH in the IRS computer

[SheltieLover]

6. I'll bet you are right!

Never thought of that! TY! 😍👍

[mr_lebowski]

8. You are definitely right, while at the same time, it's so fucking easy to code around that issue ...

It's ridiculous.

The site the Jared's buddies probably put together is a joke of a hack job.

select * from taxpayer where upper(address) = upper(address parameter from UI)

Now you're comparing an always upper-case version of the address in the DB to an always upper-case value from the website, thus getting around case-sensitivity issues. DERP.

DBA's have only been writing queries like this for 30+ years ...

[Cicada]

9. Here is a fabulous example

A judicial district includes some addresses in Fairfield Ct. Someone finally figured out that no one from Fairfield had been called for jury duty in more than six years. The program for city address only permitted 8 letters. Fairfield has nine letters. The ninth letter, the letter d, was considered an entry for the next variable “deceased.” Any entry in that column was scored as meaning the person was deceased. That it was a d was a coincidence, if it was R it would be coded as deceased too. Blank you’re alive. Any entry other than blank and you’re dead and don’t get called up for jury duty.Everyone with an address in Fairfield, the only town with a name longer that 8 letters in that judicial district, was dead. According to the computer program.

[royable]

7. "Those who have tried it say it works." HA!

I tried caps and non-caps for two weeks, repeatedly getting the message that “payment status not available.” I finally figured out that that was because I'd filed via Turbotax. Once the IRS got the data from TurboxTax that they needed, I got through just fine, probably using caps. My point is that the caps are not a magical solution. Caps may help, but they're not going to help if there are other valid reasons for the IRS not yet having your data on hand.

[Bucky]

10. Has this TYPING TRICK worked for anyone here?

Or do you know of anyone for whom it has worked?