The delay may come from filling out all those forms.
Frankly, if you receive a ‘subsidy’ for your healthcare that isn’t related to your actually working for it (i.e., from your employer), I don’t really care how long or if you get your ‘refund’.
Refund?
Tax refund? What are those? All I ever get is a bill.
Based on the comment that convicts have no trouble in getting fraudulent returns to pay them back within six to eight weeks....I don’t see a problem. We certainly don’t deny convicts their money. Just put something down and mail it in....whatever you wrote...it’s better than fifty-fifty that you will get the check within two months. You can’t ask for a better system than this.
Why does ANYONE that subsists on Taxpayer Dollars get any BACK in the first place? Never understood that. It’s not like that money is EARNED in any measurable way.
Look at the bright side.
Those 15,000 lawyers and accounts the IRS hired to administer this complicated mess had a prosperous Christmas!
Write down the number and name of this form, because the early word is that it a total “cluster” at the IRS, and they are sending out forms to many people who shouldn’t get one.
And, you dasn’t just pitch them, or the IRS will send you a whopping bill or garnish your refund, or whatever. So you probably need professional tax advice.
Fun stuff, but like most FReepers SHOULD DO, but probably don’t, I monitor my withholding and make sure that I always OWE MONEY on April 15th. Next year, about $600 - so they can play all the games they want with refunds, but it’s not going to hurt me, not one bit.
I would not be the least bit surprised if this is part of the”back end” of the program that still hasn’t been built, as we heard about late last year.
We had no health insurance this year. But no penalty here since we never get a refund. :-p