- Posted by Christopher Estep on July 26, 2008
This one has to rank up there with the $400 toilet seats. What’s scary is that the IRS has him listed as deceased and he got the check anyway. I agree with the quote below, boldfaced.
ROSWELL, Ga. (AP) -- A $600 stimulus check was sent to a man in Roswell who had died, and his personal representative, a Fulton County magistrate, is quite peeved.
The U.S. Treasury check was made payable to George A. Coker DECD. The 'DECD' means deceased. Coker died in May 2007.
Magistrate Richard Hicks, who filed Coker's 2007 tax return, is listed on the check as "PERREP" or personal representative.
Hicks said, "There's a $9 trillion national debt, and our government's giving away money to dead people. As a taxpayer, it's offends the hell out of me."
11Alive.com | Atlanta, GA | $600 Stimulus Check Sent to Dead Man in Roswell