In an April 3 letter to the administration, Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, and Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, said those recipients should not be required to file a tax return. They asked for the checks to be issued automatically through the Department of Veteran Affairs and the SSI program, administered by Social Security.
“Treasury should not require people with disabilities and low-income veterans and seniors to file a form to receive stimulus payments when the federal government already has the information it needs,” the letter reads in part.
“This is the fastest, most-effective way to provide desperately needed help to more than 3 million low-income veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities.”
The SSI program pays benefits to disabled adults and children who have limited income and resources. The senators say the process for getting SSI and VA beneficiaries payments would mirror the process that it is using for seniors and people with disabilities receiving Social Security.
