Recovery of Stolen Checks Act
Official title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to elect to receive certain replacement refunds electronically.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Recovery of Stolen Checks Act
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to establish procedures that allow an eligible taxpayer to elect to receive by direct deposit a replacement of a federal tax refund amount that was originally issued as a paper check and was lost or stolen. (Currently, taxpayers eligible to receive a replacement of a lost or stolen federal tax refund check are generally issued another paper check.)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2449: Recovery of Stolen Checks Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-2449/
"S. 2449: Recovery of Stolen Checks Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-2449/.
S. 2449, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-2449/.
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