There are still several states sending out direct payments to their residents this year, most of which will be sending their payments within the first half of 2023.
The deadline to file for these payments will occur sometime this month for some of these states, while for other states, the deadline ended in late 2022, with recipients waiting to receive their payment. Some recipients could receive up to $1,500 from these payments, while others would only receive $250.
Here are the four states that are still sending out payments to recipients.
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Idaho
Gov. Brad Little (R-ID) and the Idaho Legislature authorized a rebate in September, which will go to people who were full-year Idaho residents for 2020 and 2021 and filed income tax returns for those years. The amount of this rebate will be $300 for individual filers and $600 for joint filers or 10% of a taxpayer’s 2020 income taxes, whichever is greater, according to the Idaho government.
The Tax Commission is expecting to send these rebates by the end of March. Recipients can track their payments online at tax.idaho.gov/rebate.
New Jersey
The Affordable New Jersey Communities for Homeowners and Renters program is accepting applications from state homeowners and renters through Feb. 28. The deadline to apply was pushed back from its original Jan. 31 deadline to allow all eligible residents of the Garden State to partake in this program, according to Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D-NJ) office.
The program will give homeowners $1,500 if their annual income is $150,000 or less and $1,000 if their annual income is over $150,000. Renters, meanwhile, will not receive as much as homeowners, but they can still apply and receive a payment of $450 so long as they make $150,000 or less annually.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s Property Tax/Rent Rebate Program is intended for eligible Pennsylvanians who are 65 and older, widows and widowers who are at least 50 years old, and people with disabilities ages 18 and older. The income limit for this program is $35,000 a year for homeowners and $15,000 for renters, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue.
The program will provide homeowner recipients with a maximum standard rebate of $650 if they make $8,000 or less annually and only $250 if they make anywhere between $18,001 and $35,000. The amount they receive will go down if they make more money per year.
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South Carolina
South Carolina’s tax rebate is available for all state residents who file their taxes by Feb. 15, with the payment being issued to recipients in March, according to the state’s Department of Revenue.
The size of the rebate that applicants receive will depend on their tax liability, which is the amount of state income tax that a South Carolina resident owes for the 2021 tax year. If a resident’s tax liability is less than $800, the rebate amount will be equal to the tax liability. Anyone whose tax liability is greater than $800 will receive exactly $800.
