The State: Not Everyone with a Social Security Number Gets a Stimulus Check

In Alejandra’s case, a U.S. citizen born in this country will be denied her stimulus check. Of course, her husband falls into the same category of roughly 4.3 million immigrants who do not have a Social Security number but file taxes using a taxpayer identification number. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates that half pay taxes; none qualify for the $1,200 stimulus check.