I am so sorry you are here with us in this boat. The ex wife will not get the money so quickly in her hand. It takes a few months in my case. They IRS first calculates the amount the ex gets and then they apply it to you child support account and only after a a month it gets sent to ex as a check in my experience. So it is a slow process on BOTH ends. Yours as the injured spouse and the exes. At least it is so in my state. I filed injured spouse with an extended tax return for 2018 in Oct 2019 (extended till Oct 15th) and I still do not have my part of the Return. I called in March and they said call if you have nothing in 30 days and then there was the virus and the IRS is unreachable. So I do not think its going to be that fast this year but who knows. I just know people often had to wait in past a long time for their injured spouse part sometimes 6 months. Maybe they do it quicker this year because it is a stimulus payment and not just your income tax refund. But when I heard they offset it for child support arrears I was shocked because I know it takes ages to get that back even if the injured spouse is filed with the return. This is nuts. This supposed to be emergency money yet it gets done in this slow bureaucratic manner. Shame on everybody. We need to complain and complain on Twitter, call people, protest. This is bad, really bad. People think they gonna get their injured spouse money quickly and they will not! I do not think so. If anybody of you guys got their injured spouse money part please let me know how long it took and how much did you get back compared to percentage of your income share on tax return between you and spouse!
