I got a “tax refund” under the guise of a stimulus payment, but it went directly to a student loan that had been on hold, pending decision of disability. Subsequently, they attached my monthly income for $155 which was almost a quarter of my income.
And still, they didn’t make a decision. In fact. I had to submit medical paperwork twice more in the next two years, because the requirements had changed, while the Heads were making a decision and making me a pauper. They finally decided I would never work again (at MY age???) and deemed me “totally and permanently disabled.”
And every year, they send me paperwork to sign to say I haven’t had gainful employment for the last year. This is “supposedly” the last year of “verification,” they say.
So this year, (2014) I saved all my receipts to try and use them (legally) as a way to get a refund. I won’t know until I run the numbers, which will be in a few more days. Since the IRS is now the bill collector (illegally) for the Treasury Department, they may decide to take that.
And no one recognizes off-sets to income when it comes to rent and stuff like that there.
See, your mistake was in not going to work for Al Sharpton. If you’d done that the IRS wouldn’t have asked for anything, nobody would have touched your student loan, and you’d have been getting refunds this whole time.
Of course, you’d have had to sell your soul, but ...