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If you’re wondering where to pay your August or July child tax credit, you are not alone. Some families are still waiting for the monthly checks worth up to $ 300 per child, although the good news is that these delays are temporary for most people. Here’s a look at what’s going on.

Where are your child tax deductions paid?

The checks are part of an increased child discount of up to $ 3,600 per child, with half of that amount qualifying upfront on the 15th, check out this Lifehacker post). The problem is, some families haven’t seen their payments yet for the following reasons:

• Normal post office delays: If you receive your payment as a check in the mail, there may be a delay of up to four weeks, even with a standard address. If you use mail forwarding or have a foreign address, this can take even longer, up to nine weeks.
• Your August payment was sent by check even if you were expecting a direct deposit: A disruption in payments for 5.4 million families means they will receive their payment in the mail even if they received their first check by direct deposit. If this is the case for you, you may encounter typical snail post delays. The IRS says the glitch is temporary and that direct deposits should resume in September.
• Your July payment was missed so this amount will be added to your remaining payments: The IRS says that some families who did not receive a July payment will still receive their full upfront payment for the year. This means that the total payment will be spread over five months instead of six, making each monthly payment larger. For these families, each payment is increased up to $ 360 per month for each child under 6 years of age and up to $ 300 per month for each child 6 to 17 years of age.
• Either you are not entitled to the benefit or the checks are simply missing: If you haven’t received your July or August payments, use the IRS Authorization Assistant Tool to see if you are eligible for the benefit. Pro CNETIf you added a child to your family in 2021, they may not be covered by the IRS as they use information from your 2020 tax return (you can find this in their Child tax credit portal). Finally, it’s also possible that your checks simply disappeared.

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How to confirm your child tax break status

How to check the status of your payment in Child tax credit portal, go to the Payments Processed section. If you are waiting for your payment and the portal says it is “pending” it means the check should come soon. If the status says a payment has been delivered but you haven’t received it, make sure your address and bank details are correct.

If the portal shows a processed payment and you don’t receive it, you can try the following: a Payment tracking, this is a request to find out what happened to your money. A trace can take up to six weeks to process, so don’t use this option until enough time has passed, as follows:

• Direct deposit: five days
• Check by mail to a standard address: four weeks
• Check by mail to a forwarding address: six weeks
• Postal check to a foreign address: nine weeks

If none of this works, in the worst case scenario, you will have to claim the full credit later as part of your 2021 tax return. For more information on the child allowance, see Check out this IRS FAQ.

The Pixel 5a comes standard with 128 GB of internal storage. So you can process all the photos, videos, apps and games you want on your Pixel.

The iPhone SE is cheaper than the 5a from $ 50, which could be an important factor in your purchase decision. At that price, however, you only get 64GB of internal storage, half the storage of the Pixel. To get to 128GB, you’ll have to spend an extra $ 50, which puts the phones back in the exact same price range.

Now Apple is upgrading the SE to 256 GB, which the Pixel does not allow. If you need a lot of internal storage this is definitely a consideration, but it will cost you an additional $ 100 for a total of $ 549.

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If you don’t, you are probably not getting the most out of your Apple Watch use it for fitness, and while you are dealing with this issue, you should also tweak the statistics that the watch shows you.

Because yes, you can change the statistics that the Apple Watch shows when you log a workout with the standard workout app. We’ll show you how to do this and give you a few other useful tips.

Focus on your training goal with the single metric view

I’ve been doing a lot of calorie-focused workouts lately. For example, I try to burn 150 kilocalories on the treadmill, 200 on the cross trainer or 150 kilocalories on the bike. The flood of information on the Apple Watch screen makes it harder to focus on the only thing that matters – the active calorie count.

This is why it’s great to switch to a single metric view. You will find it easier to get the information you need with a quick glance, which is a godsend in the middle of an intense workout. To do this, open the View app on your iPhone and choose Training> Training View> Single Reading.

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Customize the statistics you see while exercising

The display of your Apple Watch is not big enough to show you all kinds of data during your workout, which is why you will see up to five data points at the end, depending on which workout you are recording.

When I discovered that there were 12 different data points available while tracking outdoor runs, I saw that the five shown by default on the watch are not my favorites. I would definitely prefer to see the current pace and the active kilocalories over the duration of the training and, for example, the rolling pace.

You can go to any workout in the Watch app and choose the data you want to see when you track it on Apple Watch. Go over to Training> Training View and scroll down to the Trainings Section. Now select any workout and press Edit in the upper right corner and tap red minus symbol to the left of one of the metrics above.

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Once that’s done, you can get new readings from the Not include Section by clicking on the green plus symbol next to the data point of your choice.

Automatically pause your running training

Have you ever found that waiting at a stop sign resulted in a dramatic decrease in your average pace for a run? You can avoid this by manually pausing your workout when you stop and resuming it when you’re out, or you can ask your Apple Watch to do it for you.

Go to in the Watch app on your iPhone Work out and activate Carry out auto-pause.

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Create a standard playlist for your workouts

You can stop fiddling with your Apple Watch (or iPhone) to find the right playlist every time you hit the gym. Just set a default playlist for your workouts and your Apple Watch will automatically play it every time you start a workout.

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You can enable this by opening the Watch app on your iPhone and selecting it. walk Training> Training playlist. You can choose any Apple Music playlist from this page. After choosing a playlist, you can choose between Play from the start or Mix to determine the order in which the songs will be played.

Extend your battery life when tracking workouts

I often forget to charge my Apple Watch overnight and waste my time charging it in the morning when, ideally, I should start exercising. If you’re in a similar situation, you can put Apple Watch into sleep mode to get more miles while running and walking.

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When you turn on sleep mode, your Apple Watch’s heart rate monitor is turned off, which means the active and calorie burn data is less accurate. My regular 15-minute walk training usually shows 50 active and 70 calories burned. When the energy-saving mode was activated, 30 active and 50 total calories burned were displayed. Since the GPS is activated, all other data points (speed, altitude, route map, etc.) were correct.

You can enable this through the Watch app on your iPhone. Go to Work out and activate power saving mode.

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T-Mobile confirmed a security breach which has leaked over 48 million current, past and potential users. T-Mobile says it closed the server vulnerability hackers used to access the files, but the leaked information is now for sale online.

According to the hackers selling the database, it contains the first and last names, dates of birth, social security numbers, and driver’s license numbers of over 7.8 million postpaid subscribers, 850,000 prepaid customers, and more than 40 million “past or future” customers. plus account PINs for some of the 7.8 million postpaid subscribers.

On the “bright side,” T-Mobile says no financial or billing information has leaked. However, any information leaked is highly sensitive and could easily contribute to someone stealing your identity if your information was stolen.

T-Mobile will contact those affected for instructions on how to change your account PIN and update your security settings. Affected users will also receive McAfee’s ID Theft Protection Service for two years.

But even if you don’t hear from T-Mobile, your data can be compromised. The seller claims the database contains records of over 100 million current and former customers – including people who simply signed up for the T-Mobile service but never opened an account. This means that more users could be at risk than the 48 million T-Mobile have confirmed.

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All active T-Mobile customers should change their passwords and account PINs immediately, and everyone who has used the mobile operator in the past or even applied for a possible service should upgrade their general data security. Here are a few suggestions:

• Update all other accounts that use the same password as your T-Mobile account – and Please do not use any more passwords. A password manager can help you keep track of all of your unique logins.
• Sign up for two-factor registration and login notifications for each account you use.
• Remove as much personally identifiable information as possible from your T-Mobile profile and other accounts.
• Monitor your bank accounts and other financial services and payment methods such as PayPal or Venmo for suspicious activity. Report anything you don’t see.
• Watch out for phishing attacks, malware and trojans other scams. Hackers and scammers send misleading messages malicious links or fake special offers to stolen email addresses, phone numbers and social media accounts that have been compromised by a data breach.

These steps will help mitigate the impact of the T-Mobile injury – and everyone Data breach, for that matter—Together with other smart data security decisions like use a VPN, turn on Privacy settings in browsers / apps / websites, Enable ransomware protection, Encrypt important files and hard drives, and Install reliable antivirus software on your devices.

[9to5Mac]