Time running out to claim IRS checks
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New Yorkers have just a week left to claim more than 19,000 economic-stimulus checks (with an average amount of $579) that were returned to the Internal Revenue Service because of incorrect addresses. Taxpayers have until next Friday to update their address. By law, stimulus checks must be sent out by Dec. 31.
To check the status of a stimulus payment, use the “Where’s My Stimulus Payment?” tool on the IRS Web site or call the rebate hotline at 866-234-2942.
More than 8,500 regular refund checks have been returned to the IRS as undeliverable. Those checks are not subject to the Nov. 28 deadline for address updates and can be reissued at any time after a new address is provided.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
