Watch VideoThe $1,400 payments are rolling into millions of bank accounts. But some may see that money disappear almost as quickly as it came.
"The debt collectors are freezing accounts because they want to take the stimulus money," Florida resident Dee Hemsley told Newsy sister station WPTV.
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