Broke firefighter waiting for coronavirus aid cash finds $8million deposited by accident
A firefighter was shocked to find over $8 million dollars had been deposited into his bank account by accident as he checked for his coronavirus stimulus check.
Charles Calvin, a volunteer firefighter in New Chicago, Indiana, went to the ATM this weekend to find out if he received the $1,700 stimulus check sent out by the federal government to help those struggling with the coronavirus – however, he could not believe his eyes when he checked his account balance.
‘I went to the ATM at the Family Express and once I withdrew $200 from my account I looked at the available balance still left in my account,’ he told WGNTV.
Calvin saw that he did in fact receive his $1,700, but account now read $8.2 million.
‘I ran the card again and again. I was like, “Man, what is going on with this,” Calvin said.
However, Calvin’s wealth was fleeting. When he called his bank Monday, he learned that the millions had been taken out, but the $1,700 remained.
‘It kind of sucks. You go from being a millionaire one second, then back to being broke again. But he, once you’re poor, you don’t have anywhere else to go but up,’ he said, adding that he does not know if the error was made by his bank or the federal government.
‘It gives you pause and makes you think what’s going on. If there’s some wort of clerical error or whatnot, they should be on top of it,’ he said.
Calvin is not the only American to receive much more than they expected as the government doles out financial relief. A man in Lafayette, Indiana recently found that over six million dollars had recently been deposited into his account. A woman in Sanford, Florida similarly found $8.5 million in her account while checking for her stimulus check. In all of the cases, the money was removed and it was unclear where the it came from.
The strange deposits come as millions of Americans are receiving checks starting at $1,200 to cope with the coronavirus crisis’ stranglehold on the economy.
According to a senior US Treasury official, most a majority of eligible Americans will have received their stimulus checks by Wednesday.