$600 was wired across 100m transactions - yet 13m people may have not reviewed their stimulus payment. Earlier this week, the IRS attributed the error to the speed at which the new law required the agency to issue the second round of Economic Impact Payments.
"For those taxpayers who checked Get My Payment and received a response indicating a direct deposit was to be sent to an account they do not recognize, the IRS advises them to continue to monitor their bank accounts for deposits," the agency advised.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/success/irs-stimulus-payments-turbotax-wrong-accounts/index.html