Jackson Hewitt offers clients a variety of products that help them pay their fees, get their refund more quickly or obtain an advance of your refund proceeds. These products may be disbursed to you through various methods, including direct deposit to your personal bank account, a check printed via your local Jackson Hewitt tax preparer or funds loaded onto a Prepaid Card or Walmart e-gift card. The IRS refers to these group of different products as refund settlement products.
In most cases, if you received a refund settlement product you are likely to receive a check in the mail unless you have updated the IRS Get My Payment portal with your direct deposit information. In some rare cases, the IRS may have directed your stimulus payment to the bank account associated with the refund settlement product, so you may not recognize the account information on the IRS Get My Payment portal. In these cases, your stimulus payment will then be processed by Republic Bank and it will follow the same disbursement method you chose for your refund.
If you received a refund settlement product, please review the tables above for additional information on the most likely scenarios of how your stimulus payment may be delivered.
Please be advised of the following scenario where Republic Bank will reject a stimulus payment and send it back to the IRS:
If you filed your 2018 tax return with Jackson Hewitt using a refund settlement product and you have not yet filed a 2019 tax return, should Republic Bank receive your stimulus payment, Republic Bank will return your stimulus payment to the IRS. Once the IRS receives and processes a rejected payment, the payment will automatically be mailed via check to the address on your most recent tax return, or the address on file with the U.S. Postal Service (depending on which is more current). The status in the Get My Payment tool will then update accordingly.