citizens and residents with some restrictions such as income amount. The Economic Impact Payments is part of the package, providing up to $1,400 for eligible U.S. economic recovery from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, was signed into law in March. President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act, a multitrillion-dollar package to swiftly boost the U.S. national living in Japan needs to deposit a check, some banks will accommodate their needs. Nowadays, banks in Japan are careful about taking a check that is issued overseas to prevent money laundering.īut in cases such as when a U.S. stimulus checks issued to a man and his wife who live in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture (Makoto Tsuchiya) “I don’t know what to do from this point forward,” said the man, staring at the checks. The man instead placed the two checks in a file in which he has stored retirement-related documents. “Only because I don’t want to go through all the trouble to make an international phone call,” he said. The man, after all, decided to do nothing. The email also said the matter is under the jurisdiction of the Internal Revenue Service and included a phone number to call the IRS. citizens in Japan, especially those who do not have a U.S. The embassy replied to him the following day in English, saying, “We are aware that this affects U.S. Embassy in Japan, asking, “Can a Japanese citizen cash it, too?” The man later sent an email written in Japanese to the U.S. He called a bank in Japan, inquiring how to cash the checks.īut a bank staff told him that the checks were likely intended for U.S. The man entertained the idea of pocketing the $2,800 and said to himself, “The United States has so much money to spare that it gives out (the checks) to foreigners like me who lived there about 40 years ago.” government’s novel coronavirus assistance and suggested that he could probably cash it. The man asked a friend who used to be an expat in the United States, who told him that the check is part of the U.S. Treasury check did not come with an explanation. bilateral agreement, he and his wife receive a monthly Social Security payment of $500 from the U.S. He paid Social Security taxes during the years. He used to work at a major Japanese electronics company and was stationed at its U.S.-based affiliate for about five years from 1978. In the Kamakura man's case, he thought the checks were related to his U.S. “We don’t have a way to examine if the person is eligible to receive the check.” “As far as the bank is concerned, if a person wants to cash a check and the person’s identity is verified, we have to ask the U.S. stimulus checks to boost the economy during the pandemic, who are at a loss of what to do with the surprise payments.Īccording to a person who is related to a major bank, the bank’s call center has been inundated with inquiries about U.S. They are among the Japanese recipients of U.S. His wife also received a check for the same amount. Inside the envelope, he found a check for $1,400 (153,000 yen). A 79-year-old man in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, received an official-looking piece of mail printed in English in late April.
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