You could get a surprise $1,000 stimulus check if you live in one of these seven states

AMERICANS in seven states may get a surprise $1,000 stimulus check if they are a teacher.

Educators in Georgia, Florida, California, Colorado, Tennessee and Texas will pocket $1,000 as a "thank you" for working during the Covid-19 crisis after Michigan rolled out $500 bonuses to teachers in February.

AS.com reported that around 230,000 K-12 public school teachers and personnel in Georgia will receive this retention bonus via the state’s federal coronavirus stimulus.

However, this attempt to boost morale with money will cost $230.5million, reported IBT.

Florida's Republican Gov Ron DeSantis wants to send out $1,000 checks to 175,000 teachers and 3,600 principals but the state’s 120,000 school staff members wouldn't get the payment, according to a press release.

The Berkeley Unified School District in California is set to give at least $2.8million in stimulus as a “thank you” to educators, which includes a 3.5 percent bonus for the next school year, plus a 1 percent pay raise. 

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Meanwhile, school staff in The Great Lake State also pocketed $250 checks as part of the “MI Classroom Heroes Grants” plan in February.

Elsewhere, Hawaii's Democratic Gov David Ige scuppered lawmakers' attempts to send out $2,200 cash after he vetoed their bill, however.

According to WTOP News, Ige claimed legislators didn't have the authority to order the state’s Education Department on how to use federal funding.

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The news comes as millions of extra stimulus funds will be deposited in the bank accounts of thousands of Americans by the IRS this week, thanks to tax returns.

While the IRS continues to distribute the third round of stimulus aid, the tax agency announced it has also sent out hundreds of thousands of bonus payments to Americans.

Those bonus amounts are based on information gleaned from recently filed tax returns, meaning those who received less money than they should have during previous rounds of stimulus are being reimbursed.

And over one million Americans who never got a third stimulus check, passed under the America Rescue Plan in March, are finally getting some cash thanks to their 2020 taxes.

The IRS also said Wednesday that it has distributed 2.2million more direct payments of up to $1,400 over the last six weeks.

That brings the total funds distributed under the America Rescue Plan up to an aggregate value of $400billion.

The latest checks had an official payment date through July 21.

More than 900,000 of these fresh stimulus checks are what the IRS calls "plus-up" payments.

Those payments are bonus money for people who previously got third-round stimulus checks, though not the full $1,400.