As part of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, single people making less than $75,000, heads of household making less than $112,500, and married couples filing jointly making less than $150,000 qualified for a third round of stimulus checks — direct payments of $1,400 per person. In addition, people making up to $80,000 received partial payments.

                By                    Gabrielle Olya

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The third round of stimulus checks came on the heels of previous stimulus payments distributed under former President Donald Trump — the first stimulus sent $1,200 to adults and $500 to dependents 16 and younger, and the second stimulus sent $600 to adults and dependents 16 and under.

Detractors of the third round of checks felt that the cost of these stimulus payments was too high, and that not everyone who would be eligible actually needed the money. A group of Republican senators made a counterproposal for $1,000 checks and a phase-out beginning at $40,000 for individual filers — a stipulation that would have covered 29 million fewer Americans than the Biden proposal that ended up passing.

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Among the Americans who didn’t need the check to cover essential costs, 19% planned to put their stimulus check into savings, 9% planned to invest it and 6% planned to spend it on a nonessential purchase.

Women Were More Reliant on Stimulus Checks To Pay Bills

The poll found that 53% of women planned to use the third stimulus check to pay bills vs. 38% of men. This could be due to the fact that women left the workforce at a higher rate than men amid the pandemic, with 2.6 million women leaving the workforce from the start of the pandemic through January of this year.

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Americans of All Ages Planned To Use the Third Stimulus Check To Pay Bills

Paying bills was the most popular poll response across all age groups, ages 18 to 65+. The age group that most needed the stimulus check to pay bills was ages 55 to 64, with over half of respondents in this age group — 53% — saying they would put their check to this use.

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