Are You Expecting a Check from the Government? Fact-Checking Stimulus Payment Claims for February 2026

Here’s the latest on proposed 2026 stimulus checks, including tariff dividend plans, DOGE payments, military bonuses, and expired COVID relief credits.

Tariff refund checks? Maybe not. But consumers could get money back.

Tariff dividend checks were always a long shot, and tariff refund checks aren't likely. But consumers may yet get some of their money back.
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Supreme Court ruling all but kills 'tariff dividend checks'

Those $2,000 "tariff dividend" checks President Trump has been talking up are looking increasingly unlikely to actually ...