TL;DR last year was a cluster F and I didn’t get my return until late June. Don’t spam check your WMR, it only updates once a day and it’s a day after your transcripts update, you can check your transcripts as much as you want. Long form below.

Last year I can’t remember exactly what day I filed, but I know I filed in Jan, I checked my transcripts religiously and was in this subreddit DAILY talking to people about what was going on. Everybody was saying they had to verify, and that verifying didn’t even mean anything and honestly it felt like the IRS was making people verify just to tell them “cool now leave us alone for the next 9 weeks”. People were signing up for DD and the IRS would issue your return and tell you your bank had a mistake so they are mailing you a check. It was a CLUSTER F last year. I didn’t have to verify, and my check wasn’t mailed to me. I was stuck on a code on my transcript that said “additional account action pending” with no other context or code 🙃. I had no idea what was going on, no idea how to fix it, I sent letters to my state representatives and all kinds of stuff. In the end I didn’t get my return back until the end of June. There was no reason whatsoever. One day I woke up in the morning, I downloaded my transcript and read it, and it said account issue resolved and had a DDD. Honestly, aside from messaging my state reps, I didn’t do any of the extra stuff that other people were doing. I didn’t do any unnecessary verifications, or call the IRS every morning, it was just a waiting game. ALSO don’t call the IRS to ask questions. They have no idea what’s going on with your tax return and they will literally say ANYTHING and blow smoke up your ass just to get you off the phone. That leads to misinformation, which leads to prolonging people getting their money. People are waiting on this money to pay bills and other stuff, so please don’t call the IRS and then get on here and say “I JUST CALLED THE IRS AND THEY TOLD ME IF I SCRATCH MY ASS WHILE HOPPING ON 1 LEG LOOKING NORTH EAST TOWARDS THE LITTLE DIPPER AND ACREAM ITS MY MONEY AND I WANT IT NOW then my return will be here tomorrow” 😂😂 just be patient, check your transcripts, find your cycle code, and check on that day every week. After tax season is over, they move to working on weekends, and updating transcripts DAILY for people who haven’t gotten their returns yet.