ST. PAUL, Minn. – Rebate checks from the $18 billion state budget surplus have all been mailed to every eligible taxpayer, but bundles of them – roughly 150,000 – haven’t been cashed. And they’re valid only for 60 days. The checks were mailed on a rotating schedule between August 16 and September 27. Why haven’t people cashed their checks, which range from $260 to $1,040? Perhaps because they looked so inauspicious — like yet another of piece junk mail disguised in plain-jane envelopes as if from the government. But who knows. Starting Thursday, the state Reveue Department will start mailing new salvos of replacement checks.
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