A Poll That Will Send Shock Waves Thru the White House

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45. With physical checks, that may be true

My guess is that the vast majority of Americans will have their payments before the end of April. Social Security requires direct deposit of benefit checks, that will get the money out efficiently and quickly to many millions of people. And most ordinary citizen-workers get refunds, it's usually the well-off who delay filing and paying as much as is legally possible. The vast majority of them use direct deposit of a refund, and they will have their stimulus money pretty quickly.

Plus, there will be ways for people not in the above categories to give information to the Federal government to get their stimulus money fairly quickly.

I'd be surprised if even ten percent of stimulus payments go out by a mailed check.