Married couples have been advised to take note of a new caution regarding the proposed $2,000 “tariff dividend” payments that Donald Trump says he plans to distribute to nearly every American citizen.
The eligibility requirements are still somewhat unclear, but new details continue to emerge about who might actually qualify for these payments.
More information is emerging about Donald Trump’s $2,000 checks
Trump recently made headlines by announcing that revenue generated from tariffs on foreign imports would be redistributed to the public, with “no less than $2,000” going to most U.S. citizens.
However, several concerns have already surfaced—such as who will ultimately qualify, what the income limits may be, and whether the payments are financially realistic in the first place.
Some have raised very valid concerns about whether the checks are a good idea, or whether they’ll ever come to fruition, yet Trump and his government have gradually been drip-feeding information about when the checks could arrive, how much they might be, and who will be getting them.
But what if you’re part of a married couple?
A good person to listen to on these matters is YouTuber and SSA expert Blind to Billionaire, who has released a video outlining the exact details as we know them.
If you want to know what ‘moderate income’ actually means when they discuss it, he’s got a bit more information for you.
He shared that it’s very simple – if you earn below a certain income, you will get the check.
As he puts it: “It is based on your income – that’s it.
“I’ll make it very clear here, is your income below $75,000 a year, as an individual, yes or no?
“That’s it – that’s all you need to know.
“If your answer is yes, you are most likely eligible for this.”
After that, he played a clip of Trump himself claiming that the government will be issuing ‘dividends’ somewhere ‘in the middle of next year’ for individuals of ‘moderate income’.
Then, Blind to Billionaire explains that he has been seeing comments from people concerned that they won’t receive the monies when they are sent out.
Concerns like being out of a job, being on social security, not filing a tax return, etc.
He moved to allay those fears: “Generally, the threshold they put in place for income is $75,000 as an individual, $150,000 dollars as a married couple.”
The income threshold will likely be the deciding factor
Other than that, you don’t need to worry about anything.
So, that might have you adding up your collective finances if you are in a married couple, but – keep in mind- being over the threshold means you are doing OK anyway.
Still, the YouTuber did warn that there is a lot of differing information out there at the minute because the government ‘do not have a written plan for this’ yet.
That meansmany people are saying a lot of stuff ‘on the fly’.
However, rest assured, if you don’t earn over that threshold either as an individual or a couple, there’s a good chance you’ll get the payout.
