If you meet this single requirement, you qualify for Trump’s $2,000 tariff dividends

President Donald Trump has been dangling cash in front of the American public in the form of a $2,000 “tariff dividend.” And of course, the big question everyone’s asking is: When are these checks supposed to show up?

Trump has been hyping the idea of handing out payments as a kind of financial thank-you for the years of tariffs collected under his administration. The promise stirred plenty of buzz, and plenty of confusion.

According to Trump, the cash could land in Americans’ bank accounts “by the middle of next year, a little bit later than that,” though he offered almost no concrete details.

“We’ve taken in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariff money. We’re going to be issuing dividends,” he said in Novemeber, adding that the payouts would be aimed at “low, moderate and middle incomes.”