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The IRS is distributing about $2.4 billion to taxpayers who didn’t receive their COVID stimulus payments. By the end of January, approximately 1 million taxpayers will receive special payments of up to $1,400 from the IRS.The IRS said it’s distributing these payments to taxpayers who failed to claim a Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2021 tax returns. The Recovery Rebate Credit is a refundable credit for individuals who did not receive one or more Economic Impact Payments (EIP), also known as stimulus payments.

“Looking at our internal data, we realized that one million taxpayers overlooked claiming this complex credit when they were actually eligible,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a statement.One taxpayer who benefitted was Ginny Bultman, 61, from Colorado. Bultman and her husband didn’t receive a stimulus payment back in 2021. After reading about the latest IRS payments, she realized she qualified for the Recovery Rebate Credit. A day later, she got her check in the mail.“It was a pleasant surprise,” said Bultman, who owns a locksmith business in her town.

The Bultman family received three late stimulus payments, including one for their underaged son, which amounted to $4,200 at the end of December.Here’s what you need to know about the IRS payments.

The special payments announced by the IRS are being sent to those taxpayers who filed a 2021 tax return but left the data field for the Recovery Rebate Credit blank or they filled it out as $0 when they were actually eligible for the credit.

Payments will vary but the maximum amount will be $1,400 per individual. In total, the IRS will be distributing about $2.4 billion to taxpayers who failed to claim a Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2021 tax returns.Dorjey now lives with his wife, two daughters and a son in Kharnakling, where scores of other nomadic families from his native village have also settled in the last two decades.

“It was a tough decision,” Dorjey said recently, sitting on the veranda at his home. “But I did not have much choice.”EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of an ongoing series exploring the lives of people around the world who have been forced to move because of rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other things caused or exacerbated by climate change.

Konchok Dorjey walks toward a room in his home where his daughter Rigzen Angmo reads in Kharnakling near Leh town in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)Konchok Dorjey walks toward a room in his home where his daughter Rigzen Angmo reads in Kharnakling near Leh town in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)