It's been a month since stimulus checks have rolled off printing presses and viewers have been reaching out to 21news asking why their check hasn't arrived yet.

"It's very unethical and unnecessary"

Raphael Skillas is a 29-year-old who is claimed by his sister as an adult-dependent, he and his niece and nephew were unable to receive stimulus checks because of their tax status.

"I would have been able to pay the bills in the house because we all help each other. I'm currently unemployed right now," adds Skillas.

But why wouldn't students be eligible to receive stimulus checks?

"College students are considered a dependent of their parents if they're under the age of 24 and a student then they're considered a dependent," says Mark Kantrowitz, Vice President of savingforcollege.com.

Kantrowitz adds this would also qualify if the student is claimable and not necessarily claimed by their parents, but are there any exceptions to this? State Higgins with Packer Thomas in Canfield says there are.

"If they happen to be on their own for 2020 when they filed their income tax return for the current year they could get the stimulus at that point and time but there's no way of knowing until they file this year's tax return," says Higgins.

The Hero's Act, recently proposed by Democrats in the US House of Representatives would fix how the laws are currently written, it would allow students to be issued stimulus monies and parents that claim students between 17 and 24 to receive rebate money they didn't receive under the current system.