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No Address, No ID, and Struggling to Get a Stimulus Check

For most Americans, the third stimulus payment, like the first two, arrived as if by magic, landing unprompted in the bank or in the mail. Imagine not having a bank account or a mailing address. Or a phone. Or identification.

Imagine not having a bank account or a mailing address. Or a phone. Or identification.

Charlie Velez, sitting on a milk crate outside the Grand Street subway station on the Lower East Side last month clinking 65 cents in a paper cup, is 0 for 3 on stimulus checks. "I didn't know the process," he said.

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For most Americans, the third stimulus payment, like the first two, arrived as if by magic, landing unprompted in the bank or in the mail.

Imagine not having a bank account or a mailing address. Or a phone. Or identification.

Charlie Velez, sitting on a milk crate outside the Grand Street [...]




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