Everyone:
I wanted to send everyone more information about the
$1,200 stimulus payments. As previously indicated, a
court has held that prisoners are entitled to these
payments too. According to the law firm that started this
litigation, the IRS requires prisoners to submit a written
claim form for the payment, though. I have put up a short
article on my website with information about this, along
with the claim form. The text of the article is below. Your
family members can access it here:
https://sentencing.net/prison-conditions/stimulus-checkfor-prisoners If you have not received your $1,200
stimulus payment, I hope you do and that this
information proves useful to you.
Sincerely, Brandon Sample, Esq.
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction that
requires the IRS pay $1,200 in stimulus to prisoners,
holding that prisoners are eligible for CARES Act
stimulus payments. However, prisoners must act fast in
order to claim their stimulus payment. The IRS requires
the submission of a form, postmarked no later than
October 30, 2020, to receive the payment. I have uploaded
the form and an example of how it might be completed
here:
Form that prisoners must use to request the payment:
https://sentencing.net/wpcontent/uploads/2020/10/EIP.Prisoner.Claim_.Form_.pdf
Example of how the form should be filled out:
https://sentencing.net/wp-

 content/uploads/2020/10/Stimulus.Prisoner.Example.pdf
Rumor is the IRS is rejecting online claim submissions by
family members of prisoners. So if you want to get the
stimulus payment on your books, you need to fill out the
form and mail it to the IRS ASAP. I highly recommend
that you send the form certified mail so you can track
when it was sent. The example completed form
encourages the prisoner to list the address of the prison
where they are incarcerated. But for BOP prisoners that
might not be the right way to do it since payments to
prisoners are sent to the BOP's lockbox. I do not know for
sure how BOP is going to handle stimulus payments that
are sent to the institution. I encourage you to check with
your institution for clarification on whether to list the
Lockbox address (Inmate Name and Reg #, Post Office
Box 474701, Des Moines, Iowa 50947-0001) or the
institution address on the Form.
The address where the form must be sent to is below.
Again if you are listing Des Moines, IA as the address
then you would probably use the Kansas City address, but
make sure to check with your institution.
If you live in....And you ARE NOT enclosing a payment
use this address Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia,
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts,
Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North
Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Vermont, Virginia
Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service
Kansas City, MO 64999-0002
Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia,

 Idaho, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming
Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service
Ogden, UT 84201-0002
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas Department of the
Treasury Internal Revenue Service Austin, TX 733010002
Alaska, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota,
Ohio, Washington, Wisconsin
Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service
Fresno, CA 93888-0002
Good luck, and I hope you get your stimulus payment!