@cryptoidtax  "I think the best approach is to sit on the check for a month. Maybe the IRS will get around to issuing guidance."

I think what's bizarre about the situation is that hardly anyone complained about it in 2008 when they sent checks to 2007 decedents, and now many expect IRS to admit it was a mistake for it to follow its own FAQs from back then, when the EIP Code Section now is nearly verbatim what the Stimulus Code Section was in 2008.  (The difference between Section 6428 v1.0 and v2.0 is mostly that IRS could now go back two years, not just one.)

The difference is probably due to social media.  We didn't have Twitter and Facebook 12 years ago, sharing anecdotes and images.