UM’s series finale vs. Wake canceled

Hurricanes baseball fans: No time to get out your brooms because Sunday’s final game of the University of Miami’s three-game home series against Wake Forest has been canceled.

The sweep already happened.

After fifth-ranked Miami rallied to defeat Wake Forest 6-3 on Saturday night for the Canes’ fifth consecutive victory, UM announced that “due to return-to-play protocols” regarding Wake Forest and COVID-19, Sunday’s 1 p.m. finale was canceled because of “a lack of available pitchers for

Wake Forest.’’

“We were still planning going into this game to play the three games,” coach Gino DiMare said in a UM release. “I kind of had a feeling going into this game if it was a situation where it was close, they were going to bring in some different guys and they brought in quite a few guys …”

DiMare indicated that he spoke to Wake Forest coach Tom Walter, and the Demon Deacons’ coach told him “there was no way’’ Wake could

“play nine innings with the amount of pitchers they had available.”

UM rose to 8-4 overall and 5-3 in the Atlantic

Coast Conference. Wake fell to 3-5 and 1-3.

On Saturday, the Canes scored five runs over their final three at-bats to take the game and their first ACC series sweep. The game included a two-run home run by UM’s Anthony Vilar in the sixth inning to tie the score at 3. After Yohandy Morales lined out to third base, Adrian Del Castillo blasted a solo home run to right field for the go-ahead run.

Right-handed sophomore reliever Anthony Arguelles (3.18 ERA) pitched one inning, allowing one hit and no runs to go 4-0 overall this young season. Carson Palmquist threw the final 2 1⁄3 innings for his fifth save.

In the series opener Friday night, right-handed freshman Rosario Alejandro dominated on the mound, allowing only one hit in seven innings to lead Miami to a 10-0 win. Alejandro (2-0, 1.96) walked two and struck out seven Demon Deacons.

Vilar and Alex Toral went 3 for 4 with 3 RBI and a home run Friday, with Toral also hitting a double.

The Canes travel to Fort Myers to meet Florida

Gulf Coast at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, then get set for a three-game series against ACC nemesis Florida State next weekend at Mark Light Field.

Dougie Hamilton and Nino Niederreiter scored, Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 saves and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the host Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Sunday for their eighth consecutive victory.

Carolina moved into the Central Division lead at 20-6-1, a point ahead of idle Tampa Bay and Florida.

Anthony Mantha scored his eighth goal of the season for Detroit with just 9.4 seconds left in regulation, spoiling Nedeljkovic’s bid for his second career shutout.

Islanders 3, Devils 2 (SO): Anthony Beauvillier and Oliver Wahlstrom scored on the visiting Islanders’ final two shootout attempts and New York won its ninth straight game.

The Devils thought they had won the game 27 seconds into overtime on a goal by P.K. Subban, but a lengthy review showed Jesper Bratt was offside.

Kieffer Bellows and Brock Nelson scored in the first period for the Islanders. Rookie Ilya Sorokin made 29 saves, allowing only Nikita Gusev to score in the shootout.

Janne Kuokkanen and Yegor Sharangovich scored for New Jersey. Scott Wedgewood made 32 saves.

Wild 4, Coyotes 1: Nick Bonino and Kevin Fiala scored in a threegoal third period for host Minnesota.

Victor Rask and Joel Eriksson Ek also scored for the Wild, now within two points of Vegas atop the West Division.

Minnesota, 11-2-1 in its past 14 games, has won four straight overall and seven in a row at home.

Phil Kessel scored for Arizona.

Stars 2, Blue Jackets 1 (SO): Alexander Radulov returned after missing 15 games and scored in the third round of the shootout to lift visiting Dallas.

Jake Oettinger made 29 saves and improved to 3-0-1 against the Blue Jackets this season.

Joe Pavelski scored for Dallas at 14:28 of the first period, assisted by Rhett Gardner with his first NHL point.

Zach Werenski scored Columbus’ lone goal at 6:49 of the third. Joonas

Korpisalo had 33 saves.

Avalanche 4, Kings 1: Philipp Grubauer made 27 saves, Andre Burakovsky and Nazem Kadri each had a goal and an assist andhost Colorado swept the two-game series with Los Angeles.

Nathan MacKinnon and Joonas Donskoi also scored for Colorado.

Grubauer nearly had another shutout before Kurtis MacDermid ended the bid early in the third.

Cal Petersen made 37 saves for the Kings.

Senators 4, Maple Leafs 3: Drake Batherson had two goals as as host Ottawa edged Toronto.

Now that President Joe Biden has signed the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill into law, millions of desperate Americans are wondering the same thing: When will I get my money?

Some people got their answer on Friday. Just one day after Biden signed the legislation into law, an Alexandria, Virginia, reader found a pending post in his bank account labeled “IRS TREAS 310 — TAXEIP3” for $6,892.90 for his family of five.

The IRS refers to the stimulus money as an economic impact payment or EIP.

“I was wondering if Biden was over-promising,” the reader said in an interview. “But I looked. And, wow, it’s actually there.”

The notation on his pending post says the stimulus funds will be available to him on March 17.

The fast turnaround is laudable considering the IRS is in the middle of the 2021 tax season and is also still processing millions of 2019 returns.

But the devil is in the details, and not all people will get their money that quickly.

As in previous rounds, the IRS will eventually post answers to many of your questions at irs.gov. But I’ve put together some information on when you can expect a payment, including what might delay your stimulus funds.

The American Rescue Plan provides a third round of direct payments, up to $1,400 for individuals, $2,800 for couples and an additional $1,400 for each dependent.

IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE GROUPS, YOU SHOULD BE AMONG THE FIRST RECIPIENTS OF THE THIRD ROUND OF STIMULUS PAYMENTS

You’ve filed your 2019 or 2020 return and received a refund: You should be first in line to get a payment. It’s possible you may see a pending post to your bank account by this weekend. Direct-deposit payments in the previous rounds were issued first to individuals with valid routing and account information on file at the IRS.

Just two days after the second stimulus package was signed into law on Dec. 27, providing $600 payments to eligible Americans, the IRS began making direct deposits into recipients’ bank accounts. A day after that, on Dec. 30, the agency said it began mailing paper checks.

The first wave of electronic payments went out to those who had received a refund and — this was key — had their refund directdeposited into a bank account.

You used the IRS “Get My Payment” tool to add bank information: In general, the IRS cannot use bank account information it has been given for taxes owed to electronically deposit stimulus payments. The agency said it needs specific authorization to use the same bank information to direct-deposit a stimulus payment.

However, the agency created a new “Get My Payment” tool to allow taxpayers to track their stimulus payments and provide banking information so that they could get a direct deposit rather than a mailed stimulus check. If you used the tool for either of the last two rounds of stimulus payments, you will likely be at the front of the line, because the IRS has permission to make an electronic deposit of the payment.

As of Friday, the IRS said “The Get My Payment” tool is temporarily offline. “Check back in a few days for an update on your 2021 Economic Impact Payment,” the agency notes on its website.

You used the IRS “non-filers” tool before Nov. 21: The IRS launched a new non-filers tool last year for people who don’t normally file a tax return. People in this group had to use the tool to file a scaled-down tax return. They could then enter payment information, including their bank account data, that allowed the agency to send them direct-deposit payments.

- You receive Social Security retirement benefits, survivor or disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income, Railroad Retirement benefits or veterans benefits: You should be among the first to receive an automatic payment, even if you aren’t required to file a tax return.

HERE’S WHAT COULD DELAY ALL OR PART OF YOUR STIMULUS PAYMENT

You’ve filed your 2020 return and you owed the IRS: There has been a lot of confusion about what bank information the IRS maintains, and it has created a lot of angst and anger when it comes to the stimulus payments.

If you have not used the “Get My Payment” tool to add banking information, the IRS generally cannot use the bank account information you provided to make a tax payment.

In this case, the IRS may end up mailing you a check or prepaid debit card. Payments sent as a paper check will obviously require more processing and mailing time, especially given the issues with the U.S. Postal Service.

You have not filed a 2019 or 2020 federal return: Millions of people are not required to file a return, because they don’t have income or earn too little.

To get stimulus payments if you qualify, the IRS needs to have a tax return on file for you. So, until you file a return, the IRS can’t send you a payment. For now, the non-filers tool is closed, so people can’t enter or update information in that portal.

The IRS has until the end of the year to get out the third round of payments. After that, eligible taxpayers have to file a 2021 return to claim the stimulus payment, which, like the first two rounds, is referred to as a “recovery rebate credit.”

You have to file a paper return: If people can’t file electronically, they have to mail a paper return. And that’s a problem since the coronavirus is still causing delays in the processing of paper returns. One problem frustrating advocates who work with chronically homeless, elderly and disabled people is the inability to add banking information without the now-closed online non-filers tool. These people will still get a payment but, without the banking information, it has to be mailed.

You have dependents and receive Social Security retirement benefits, survivor or disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income, Railroad Retirement benefits or veterans benefits: In the first two rounds, federal beneficiaries didn’t automatically get the stimulus funds ($500 and $600) if they had dependent children 16 and under. The distribution was plagued by glitches — including missing or incorrect payments for dependent children.

Also, new in this round, dependents of any age qualify for the $1,400.

Because many low-income people receiving certain federal benefits are not required to file tax returns, the IRS has no way of knowing whether they have qualifying dependent children.

If you used the non-filers tool by the Nov. 21 date, you shouldn’t have any issues. But if you missed the deadline, you have to file a 2020 return to get the money for your dependent. Until you file, the IRS won’t have the dependent information.

You have older dependents and used the non-filers tool: In the previous two rounds of stimulus relief, parents could get a payment only for dependents who were 16 or younger. So, if you had a dependent child who was 17 or older, there was no extra coronavirusrelated assistance.

Eligible taxpayers will receive $1,400 for each dependent claimed on their federal return, regardless of age. This might include a college student, a disabled adult child or an elderly relative.

However, if the IRS defaults to using your 2019 return for this third round, it might not know you have older dependents if the information wasn’t entered into the non-filers tool. So, you may not initially get the $1,400 for dependents 17 or older.

But don’t worry. Under the American Rescue Plan, the IRS can make supplemental payments if it misses eligible dependents during the initial distribution of the $1,400 payments.

You’ve moved: Although you may have filed your 2020 return and even received a refund, it’s possible the IRS hasn’t fully completed processing your return. So the agency would default to your 2019 return, and it may have an old address.

If you chose direct deposit for 2019, you’re probably good. If not, make sure you’ve given the U.S. Postal Service a forwarding address. The IRS uses the USPS National Change of Address registry. Yet even when you notify the Postal Service, not all post offices forward government checks, so you may need to still contact the IRS. Got to irs.gov and search for “change of address.”

And if history is a guide, a forwarded check takes longer to arrive.

You’ve closed the bank account that your 2019 or 2020 federal refund was sent to: If the account is closed, your bank must send the payment back to the IRS. If this the case, you’ll get a check to the address the agency has on file for you.

Payments sent as a paper check or prepaid debit card may take longer to get to you.