Tax Refunds
Nearly 1 Million Refunds Are Delayed by an IRS Policy Change — A Cleveland Man Tells Me What That Cost Him in Real Life
The conventional wisdom says filing your taxes early guarantees a fast refund. Get it in…
Articles by Vivienne Marlowe Reyes
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A School Bus Driver Was Counting on a $2,417 Tax Refund to Fix His Car — The IRS Held It for 11 Weeks
Most financial advisors will tell you that getting a raise is unambiguously good news. Garrett…
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The IRS Seized Irene’s Entire $2,800 Tax Refund Over a Debt She Thought Was Forgotten
Roughly $5.2 billion in federal tax refunds were intercepted by the U.S. Treasury Offset Program…
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A Little Rock Factory Worker Was Expecting a $2,847 Tax Refund. A Defaulted Cosigned Loan Wiped Most of It Out.
The fellowship hall at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Little Rock smells like industrial coffee and…
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A Kansas City Teacher Was Counting on His $3,400 Refund. The IRS’s Paper Check Phase-Out Changed Everything
By early February 2026, the IRS had already been accepting returns for nearly two weeks.…
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The IRS Accepted Our 2026 Return in 11 Minutes — But the Refund Took 28 Days and Two Phone Calls to Arrive
Roughly 1 in 5 taxpayers who file during the first two weeks of the season…
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A Fresno Dad Planned His Car Repair Around His Tax Refund. Then the IRS Held It for a Month.
With less than three weeks left before the April 15, 2026 federal tax filing deadline,…
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I Met a Firefighter Who Waited 61 Days for a $3,400 Tax Refund While His Car Sat in the Driveway
The conventional wisdom about tax refunds goes something like this: file early, get your money…
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A Louisville Factory Worker Was Counting on Her $4,200 Tax Refund. The IRS Had Other Plans.
Have you ever built a month’s worth of decisions around a number that hasn’t arrived…
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The IRS Held Tanya McBride’s $2,340 Refund for 11 Weeks Because a Thief Filed Taxes in Her Name First
Most people believe that filing your taxes early protects you from identity theft. File in…