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I’m on the IRS website and it’s telling me I’m eligible for the payment but needs some extra info. They’re asking for “adjusted gross income: the whole dollar amount from your tax return” however my husband and I filed our taxes together. Am I supposed to enter MY income or our total income?

I feel like doing my individual one makes no sense because it was combined on our tax return. However I’m concerned if I enter both our combined incomes when they only wanted mine, it’ll falsely tell me I don’t qualify (my husband and I each make $50k so if I entered $100k as our total amount but they only intended for me to enter mine alone, it would think I don’t qualify).

I’m SO CONFUSED and the FAQs are useless 😭 has anyone done this yet and what did you do?

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Did you file jointly? There should be an "adjusted gross income" amount on your tax return. Thats the number they're looking for

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Both total income that’s what we did and got ours today

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B💑👪 • Apr 15, 2020
Ohhh ok awesome! I guess now I sit and wait.

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G • Apr 15, 2020
I entered with my and my husband’s info combined and it told me we qualified! When I entered the info I did it under my social security number. Then after it told me I qualified and told me which bank account it would be going into, I tried again with my husband’s social security number and his automatically popped up with the same banking info now so it definitely connected us as a married couple even though I didn’t enter anything to say we were.

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B💑👪 • Apr 15, 2020
That was my same concern.. It doesnt ask if you filed jointly or single.. and it only asked for my info.. ?

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You still qualify even if you put both. The max is 139k for couples

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G • Apr 15, 2020
Yep that’s what I did, it seems to have worked 🙂🤞🏻

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K • Apr 15, 2020
I would put your joint income though, because you’re filing jointly.

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G • Apr 15, 2020
I know, I’m just nervous because there’s nothing on this site to specify if you’re entering info for a couple or a single. So I’m nervous if I enter $100k but they think I’m entering for a single then I wouldn’t qualify

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Yup! I just went on there and had the same questions! It should atleast ask if you filed jointly or something! It is so confusing! I hope it works though..

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It would be the amount for both of you since you file together. They don’t start reducing the stimulus amount until a joint file of $150,000 or more.

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Leela • Apr 15, 2020
Maybe $139,999 as someone else said. Either way, you’re under the total 😃
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