With unemployment surging and businesses struggling under lockdown, millions of Americans are relying on the extra benefits payments issued under the $2 trillion dollars Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Yet, amid threats of utility shut-offs and housing and food insecurity, an alarming proportion are still waiting for their stimulus checks.

Hold-ups in issuing paper checks, payments sent to the wrong or non-existent bank accounts, omissions of the additional $500 per child, and similar mistakes are the result of technical and human flaws in the aid distribution process the Internal Revenue Service uses, primarily outdated software systems and inaccurate data.

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Shailee Adinolfi is the director of government and trade at ConsenSys. Prior to joining ConsenSys, she was Vice President at BanQu Inc., an ethereum based identity platform, and spent over 11 years on USAID funded projects in economic growth, trade, financial services, and technology in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

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