Within a week of starting the deposits of the third stimulus check for $ 1,400 in Puerto Ricans, the Department of the Treasury surpassed the one million families who already received the money.
In a networked post, Secretary of the Treasury Francisco Parés Alicea detailed that the $ 1,400-1,135,000 families had already been disbursed.
That means a total of $ 2.5 billion deposited by the Treasury to millions of citizens in seven days.
7 days | $ 2.5 trillion | 1,135,000 families#It’sOurWork
– Francisco Parés Alicea (@SecHacienda) April 19, 2021
Earlier in a press report, Parés Alicea said that “disbursements are going at an accelerated pace and on the day of today we have already completed 53% of the payments, This exceeds what we had planned. We advance that we could complete the 70% in four or five weeks and we hope to surpass that figure in three weeks. We are sending an average of 200,000 daily payments from Monday to Friday and we will continue at this pace for the next few weeks, until the process is over. “
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