IRS gets more relief money out

The IRS said that after initial problems, it is getting more of the second round of relief payments to taxpayers.

The government began distributing the payments, worth $600 per eligible adult and dependent, at the end of December.

However, many people who filed their taxes with an online preparation service initially found that their payment did not make it to them directly. That is because money may have been sent to a temporary bank account established by the tax preparer, which is no long active.

While there is no exact measure of how often this happened, the National Consumer Law Center estimates that up to 20 million Americans may have been affected by the administrative issue.