Many stimulus checks yet unclaimed

CHAMPAIGN – More than 6,000 retirees and veterans in East Central Illinois still haven't claimed their economic stimulus payments.

In Champaign County alone, 1,978 retirees and veterans had yet to file a 2007 tax return and claim their stimulus payment, the Internal Revenue Service reported recently. Nearly as many in Vermilion County – 1,833 – had yet to do so. And another 2,290 in the counties of Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Moultrie and Piatt hadn't claimed their payment.

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