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The file, which contained the check, had his name and private address, while the sender was the competent address of the respective United States Department of the Treasury.
One after another, the citizens of Volos receive a check for $ 1,200 to help them cope with the economic consequences of the pandemic. coronavirus as revealed by the Volos Postman newspaper (taxydromos.gr) The checks, which represent the statue of liberty, have the signature of the US President, Donald Trump and come from the other side of the Atlantic through the Greek Post!
In recent days, the news that the infamous checks are received not only by American citizens but also by Austrians has been around the world. In fact, according to posts in the “stranger’s” columns, more than 100 of those checks signed by Donald trump redeemed at Austrian banks. However, it appears that the transatlantic check consignment had, among other things, recipients in Volos.
Typical is the example of Voliotis, 72 years old. Ο Ν.Π. received his check the days before through the Hellenic Post. The file, in which the check was attached, had his name and address, while the sender was the competent address of the respective United States Department of the Treasury.
Upon opening the file, the 72-year-old found a double check, one his own and one from his wife. These are checks for $ 1,200 (each), signed by the American president, which were sent to all American citizens and not only, as an aid to cope with the economic consequences of the coronavirus.
“This money came to me in a box! It was a gift.” My wife and I owed an amount, which we returned and we already have left over to cover our needs, “he said. Ο Ν.Π. He cashed his check a few days ago at Piraeus Bank, which was the only branch that, as he himself pointed out, accepted the check and credited the money to his account, receiving a total of 1,960 euros after the currency conversion and the reservations made.
The explanation of money
The sending of checks to non-US citizens seems to have been made through the social security number (the corresponding AMKA) for citizens who even worked for some years in the American continent. According to NP, he himself went to the United States in 1970 to work in a position secured by his brother, who was an economic immigrant to the United States in an aluminum company. He lived and worked in the United States for ten years. There he met his wife who is a native of Kalymnos, they married and had their first child. They returned to Greece and specifically to Volos, where they had a second child.
The family has lived in Volos since the late 1979s and early 1980s, but it appears that their decade of working life in the United States has not been erased by the record-keeping programs of the US authorities. In fact, NP still receives a small amount, about $ 350 a month as a pension during the decade he worked in the United States.
In late March, as part of the largest rescue package in U.S. history, the Trump administration decided to send $ 1,200 in cash assistance to families with an annual income of up to $ 75,000 and $ 2,400 to working couples with the double your annual income. Some of them came from the other side of the Earth and even Volos giving economic encouragement to their recipients.
Source: Volos Postman newspaper, taxydromos.gr
