Lost Mail?

Up until now I can count on one finger the number of pieces of mail of ours, that have gotten lost. But that number has tripled in the last month.

It is tax time and all the necessary paperwork has been rolling in, all except for Brian’s 2021 Economic Impact Statement letter. We got Donna’s in the mail a couple week’s ago, but mine hasn’t shown up. Not that we really needed it, we both got the amount. So I just doubled the figure on hers when I entered the info into the tax software and we didn’t qualify for the Recovery Rebate credit (whatever that is.)

We are now both getting Social Security, so I made a test tax return for 2022 that includes that money in addition to our small pensions and the IRA withdrawals. Oregon doesn’t tax Social Security, but the US government does and if we didn’t take withholding from it we would have had a pretty hefty tax bill next year. We both filled out a W-4V and mailed them to our local (Medford) Social Security Administration office.

We used separate envelopes and a week or so later I received something back acknowledging that I had asked for withholding. Donna did not and sure enough, there wasn’t any money taken out of her most recent deposit. Yesterday we mailed a second W-4V out, hopefully this one won’t get misplaced somewhere.