Within a week of the start of the deposit of the third stimulus check for $ 1,400 to Puerto Rico, the Treasury Department exceeded one million families who have already received the money.
In a publication on networks, the Secretary of the Treasury, Francisco Parés Alicea, detailed that they have already paid 1,400 to 1,135,000 families.
That means a total of $ 2.5 billion deposited by the Treasury to millions of citizens in seven days.
7 days | $ 2.5 billion | 1,135,000 families#IsOurWork
– Francisco Parés Alicea (@SecHacienda) April 19, 2021
Earlier, in a press release, Parés Alicea stated that “payments are at an accelerated pace and updated. today we have already completed 53% of payments, this is beyond what I had planned. We anticipate that we could complete 70% in four to five weeks and we expect to exceed that figure in three weeks. We send an average of 200,000 payments a day from Monday to Friday and we will continue at this pace for the next few weeks, until the process is completed. “
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