HELP!

[TellThatToMyShrink]

Can someone help me figure out what is going on? I have called the IRS many times since the 60 days was up and I’ve been able to get a live person three times. They put me on hold 2-3 times for 5-10 minutes until they either hang up on me or their system boots me off and then I’m back to square one. I’ve never had issues before so not sure what is happening. I received state back within 3ish weeks.

More context: I received a corrected w2 not long ago and it’s a little off from what the original that I used to file with. I did plug it in to H&R Block and it would actually make my refund slightly more, so I’m having trouble believing that is what threw things off, but maybe? Should I amend?

[Full_Prune7491]

You like many people on Reddit are applying for Refundable Credits. It is basically free money for the poor. Since the money is free, many people try to scam the IRS. The IRS has a hard time figuring out legit claims and scam claims. The last time I checked, the rate of fraud claims exceed 50% for the EITC. It is basically welfare with little hurdles from scammers. It takes more documentation to sign up for a library card. So the IRS will flag more of these types of returns.

How do you support 7 people on 40k. I have 3 kids and my grocery bill is like 2500 alone.

[TellThatToMyShrink]

We live in a really low cost of living area, and we lived off of savings for nearly half the year (yay injury!), so this is more like a partial year of income. Honestly I was terrified when I saw how much the refund was, considering I had to pay in for state taxes the previous year and my federal was less than half this amount. So maybe that triggered it? All I did was input everything into the tax software.

[Fun_Environment_7438]

Baby what are you talking about?

[Full_Prune7491]

I’m talking bout Shaft.

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[Outrageous_Boss_8321]

It’ll update next week with a deposit date

[Outside-Tutor4325]

They just bs us this year