Where's My Tax Stimulus Payment?

[Alison] I just discovered a curious secret about the tax stimulus payment. The software the Social Security Administration and the IRS have only registers three names and I have a first name, two middle names (middle and maiden) and a last name - no hyphens. So Social Security, in their infinite wisdom, decided to hyphenate my second middle and last name without informing me. The IRS couldn't find me because I put my legal name (no hyphens in sight) on my tax return.

You only get the tax stimulus payment if your return flies through the system with NO GLITCHES. It doesn't matter if you did everything right. Nobody can do anything to fix it. Also, my tax refund check, filed in June and not here yet, has taken months and months because of that little hyphen. Next year's solution, according to the IRS, is to hyphenate my last two names, even though that's not my legal name. Nobody there seems to understand why I have a problem with that. Oh, all this unravelling of this problem took four phone calls and about six hours of time. AARGH!