BillM223
Employee Tax Expert

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If I understand your situation, the student debt will normally be taken from your joint refund. This may be OK with you if you want to pay down the debt more quickly. Some taxpayers want the spouse without the debt to get "their" refund back, so they file an Injured Spouse form, so that the spouse without the debt gets more of the refund. Please see this IRS page on Injured Spouse.

 

Inside TurboTax, to claim Injured Spouse, do a Search (upper right) for injured spouse and click on the jump-to link (Mac users must find injured spouse in the Topics list). Note: just type in injured spouse and ignore all the suggested search terms.

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