I am entitled to receive the Unemployment Tax Refund break but as of 12/9/2021 I have not received anything. What do I do now?

[Critter-3]

Did you get the original refund yet ?  

[xmasbaby0]

@caalger1952 When---and how-- did you file your 2020 tax return?   Did you e-file it or mail it?   Has the return been fully processed?   

[fanfare]

Believe it or not, IRS is still working on getting the adjusted refund out for tax returns filed before March 11 when the Unemployment Exclusion was signed into law.

[caalger1952]

Unbelievable!!!!     I have 2 friends who filed after me and they received their unemployment refund!!!    Sure could use that money owed to me!!!   If I owed it to them they sure would let me know!!!

[caalger1952]

I filed in early March and I e-filed my return.   It was before they allowed the exemption up to $10,200. for the unemployment and I also claimed taxes on my unemployment right from the start.

[caalger1952]

And my return has been processed!!!

[xmasbaby0]

You will get an additional federal income tax refund for the unemployment exclusion if all of the following are true.

• You reported unemployment benefits as income on your 2020 tax return, on Schedule 1 line 7.
• You did not get the unemployment exclusion on the 2020 tax return that you filed. The unemployment exclusion would appear as a negative amount on Schedule 1 line 8, with the abbreviation UCE on the dotted line to the left of the amount.
• Your tax on Form 1040 line 16 is not zero.
• Your Adjusted Gross Income (AGI), not including unemployment, is less than $150,000.

 TurboTax cannot track or predict when it will be sent.  The IRS has not provided a way for you to track it, so all you can do is wait for the refund to arrive.

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[caalger1952]

Yes I did

[Critter-3]

The IRS is still working on getting the unemployment corrections taken care of ... so if you qualify for more of a refund after the exclusion happens then eventually they will get to your return.  Sadly no way to speed up the process or check on where it is in the system.