The IRS has released a detailed breakdown of the more than $271 billion sent to Americans in the first round of “Economic Impact Payments” (more commonly known as stimulus checks). Some stats:
- Total payments: 161,943,888
- Total amount: $271,421,554,000
- Number of payments made electronically: 122,526,361 (about 76%)
- Number of payments sent by check: 35,837,168 (22%)
- Number of payments made by debit card: 3,580,359 (2%)
- Number of payments sent to taxpayers with adjusted gross income (AGI) between $100,00 and $200,000: 16,985,976
- Total amount of payments to those taxpayers: $40.2 billion
- Number of payments sent to taxpayers with adjusted gross income (AGI) of $200,000 or more: 412,372
- Total amount of payments to those taxpayers: $246.4 million.
