As $1,400 stimulus checks land in bank accounts across the country this week, many homeless Americans who desperately need them are in danger of missing out on the COVID relief payments.

Because the government uses tax information to direct payments to eligible Americans, the system created to deliver aid doesn’t easily include houseless people.

The third round of stimulus checks is being disbursed based on IRS tax return information from 2019 or 2020 – however, people who make less than $12,200 a year are not required to file a tax return and will not automatically receive a payment.