@Kristinking78 wrote:
I did mail my tax refund 7 weeks ago. It still says “ready to mail”. How do I know if it was ever received by irs?
TurboTax does not mail it for you, so hopefully, you physically printed, signed, and mailed your return. The Tax Home of your account will always say "Ready to mail" for the return status. TurboTax does not get any feedback from the IRS about whether your mailed return was received, so your account has no way to even know if you actually mailed it or not. Only you will know if you physically mailed it. Normally when mailing tax papers to a tax agency, it's a good idea to mail with a method that has tracking such as Priority Mail, certified mail, etc.
If you mailed 7 weeks ago, then you mailed yours right in the depths of the IRS manual processing shutdown due to the Coronavirus. The IRS has not been processing mailed paper returns the last few weeks. They may have recently started processing some again, but will have a huge backlog and have limited staffing. The IRS website has told people NOT to file a second return.
For right now, just keep watching the IRS "Where's My Refund" tool every few days such as once or twice a week. At some point it should be logged into their system and start to show up in that tool.
https://www.irs.gov/refunds
