Will Rising Gas Prices Have an Influence on Stimulus Payments?

By Ruth K. Washington Last updated Nov 29, 2022

For months, there have been whispers about a fourth stimulus check, but no action has been taken. Even with a record 3 million signatures on a Change.org petition in favor of giving Americans $2,000 per month in stimulus money, no fourth stimulus is insight.

Are rising gasoline prices going to be the impetus for the government to finally provide Americans with a fourth stimulus check?
Gas prices have been climbing since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Americans require aid as they navigate economic and financial uncertainty.

Many people believe the stimulus funds have been depleted. Americans who qualified received three rounds of stimulus cheques, and that is where it will end.

Some argue that the one-time stimulus payments aided the economy, while others argue that they did not.

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These states adopted their own stimulation control measures.

Some states, such as these, are getting inventive and putting together their own stimulus checks for people.

They include the following:

Raises for local workers
Bonuses to people who return to work
Money paid to families with young children
Bonuses to people who are currently unemployed
Thank you payments to people who returned to the workforce during the pandemic
Bonuses to people who filed for the Earned Income Tax Credit in 2019
One-time bonuses to front line workers
One-time unemployment bonuses to people who lost their job during the pandemic

Americans’ wallets are being squeezed as the economy struggles to recover, inflation brews, and workers return to their places of employment after years of working remotely.

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