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A retiree from Upper Austria couldn’t believe his eyes when he received a check signed by US President Donald Trump for $ 1,200.
No kidding: the corona checks signed by Donald Trump were for more than 100 Austrians and also for more than a million dead American citizens.
Keystone / Susan Walsh
On an Austrian news program, this man tells how he cashed the check at the bank.
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The check was worth $ 1,200.
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Checks signed by US President Donald Trump to combat the economic fallout from the Corona crisis have now reached a number of Austrians. More than 100 checks of this type for $ 1,200 each (about 1,000 euros) have been cashed at banks, according to the ORF. One of the beneficiaries is a pensioner from Linz in Upper Austria who once worked for a short period in the US At first he thought it was a bad joke, the man described on the ORF news program “ZiB2 “Monday night. The bank had verified the authenticity of the check and, shortly after, had the money in the account.
The reason for the cash blessing could be a data breach with the US authorities. The US government had sent checks to countless people with the intention of helping with the coronavirus crisis. US citizens with an annual salary of up to $ 75,000 received checks for $ 1,200 and working couples with salaries of up to $ 150,000 received $ 2,400. Payments to more than a million deaths were also made in error. Apparently, the Ministry of Finance and the tax authorities had not compared her data with the death reports of the social security authorities before sending the aid checks.
In the case of the Linz pensioner, a large part of the money will return to the United States. If travel restrictions drop again, she will eventually vacation there again, she announced.
