California lawmakers accept approved a nib that will see five.vii million residents each receive a $600 stimulus payment. The pecker volition be signed into law past California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday.

Those eligible for the stimulus payment include people receiving CalEITC (California Earned Income Taxation Credit) this twelvemonth likewise equally residents who are currently qualified under several existing federal aid programs.

Some Californians could receive the $600 checks as soon as nigh a month after filing their 2020 tax returns.

The $600 payments course function of the state'due south $7.6 billion COVID-xix relief package, which includes $two.1 billion in grants and fee waivers for small businesses.

An boosted $2 billion in revenue enhancement breaks for businesses is expected be approved by the California Legislature this week, raising the total relief amount to $9.6 billion.

Who qualifies for the $600 stimulus payment?

Those who fall within the post-obit categories are qualified to receive the $600 check:

  • Residents receiving CalEITC for 2020.
  • Households with individual tax identification numbers (ITINs) and an income below $75,000.
  • Households enrolled in the CalWORKs plan.
  • Recipients of Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP)
  • Recipients of help through the Greenbacks Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI).

Some people who qualify as ITIN taxpayers may also be eligible to receive CalEITC, which would allow them to merits a full of $i,200 in stimulus payments nether the state's relief program, the governor's office noted last week.

How to encounter if y'all're eligible for a $600 bank check

See if you qualify for CalEITC

Residents tin can check whether they qualify for CalEITC at the California Department of Community Services & Development website.

CalEITC is a "refundable cash dorsum tax credit for qualified low-to-moderate income Californians," the department explains. Those who qualify to receive the credit are ordinarily Californians with an annual income of less than $thirty,000.

You may qualify for CalEITC if​ "you lot're at to the lowest degree 18 years erstwhile or have a qualifying kid, you lot have earned income within sure limits and the amount of CalEITC you lot may get depends on your income and family size," the CSD notes. Other requirements apply. See the CSD website for full details.

Every year, over 20 percentage of those eligible to receive CalEITC don't merits it, according to California's Legislative Analyst's Office.

Around iii.8 million of California's $600 stimulus checks volition go to those who qualify for CalEITC. They can wait to meet their stimulus payment around four to five weeks, on boilerplate, after they file their 2020 taxation returns if they as well sign upward for directly deposit, a spokesperson for the California Section of Finance, H.D. Palmer, noted.

Only the look time for those who opted to receive the $600 equally a bank check may exist equally long as 7 weeks.

Run across if you require an ITIN

An ITIN is a tax processing number issued past the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to "individuals who are required to have a U.Due south. taxpayer identification number but who do not accept, and are non eligible to obtain, a Social Security number (SSN) from the Social Security Assistants (SSA)," the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) explains.

Some residents are required to have an ITIN. You can see a list of criteria for those who need to have an ITIN and instructions for how to utilise for ane at the IRS website.

Some of the people who fall within this category are immigrants who didn't receive the $one,200 federal relief payments sent in 2020, according to ABC News.

Effectually 565,000 of the $600 stimulus payments will exist given to those with ITINs earning less than $75,000.

See if you qualify for CalWORKs

CalWORKs is a public assistance programme providing cash aid and services to eligible families with children. By and large, the following qualify for the CalWORKs program, as outlined past the California Section of Social Services (CDSS):

  • Families with children at home who have been deprived of parental support or intendance because of the absence, disability or death of either parent.
  • Families with children where both parents are at domicile but the principal earner is unemployed.
  • Needy caretaker relatives of a foster child or foster children.

Around 405,000 of the $600 payments will be issued to those who authorize under CalWORKs. Payments will be made on EBT (electronic benefit transfer) cards and are expected to be issued by mid-Apr. Only the timing may change depending on the ability to automate the process, according to Palmer.

See if you qualify for SSI/SSP

The SSI Program is a federal program providing income support to those eligible who are 65 or older, blind or disabled. "SSI benefits are besides available to qualified blind or disabled children. The SSP Program is the state programme which augments SSI," CDSS notes.

"Eligibility for both programs is determined by SSA using federal criteria. If an eligible private qualifies for SSI, they qualify for SSP. The benefits are in the form of cash assistance," the CDSS explains.

See the CDSS website for full details on eligibility requirements for SSI/SSP.

The timing and method of payment for those eligible for the stimulus checks under SSI and SSP are still beingness mapped out and will depend on discussions with the SSA, according to Palmer.

See if you lot qualify for CAPI

CAPI is a fully state-funded program providing monthly greenbacks benefits to "aged, blind, and disabled non-citizens who are ineligible for SSI/SSP solely due to their clearing status," the CDSS notes.

Run into the CDSS website for full details on eligibility requirements for CAPI.

Around 15,000 of the $600 checks are expected to exist issued to those eligible nether CAPI.

Homeless in Venice California COVID-19 face mask
A fellow member of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority offering a face mask to a homeless man on December iii, 2020 in Venice, California. State lawmakers have approved a COVID-19 relief bill that would see 5.7 1000000 California residents each receive a stimulus payment of $600. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

The wider movie

The novel coronavirus has infected more than 111.8 million people, including over 28.1 million in the U.S., since it was first reported in Wuhan, Mainland china.

More than 2.four 1000000 people accept died worldwide and more than 63 million have recovered as of Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins Academy.

The graphic below, produced past Statista, illustrates the spread of COVID-nineteen deaths across the U.S.

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