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If the state sent you a 1099G for the refund they think they sent it to you or applied it to something you owed.   You need to ask the state.   Or is it a 1099G for unemployment?  

And you might not need to include a 1099G state refund at all in your federal return in the first place.  A State Tax Refund is taxable if you itemized deductions on that prior year's federal return and took a deduction for state income taxes instead of the sale tax.  You got a deduction benefit for it so now you have to include it as income. If you took the standard deduction it is not taxable and you don't need to report it.

 

You need to check your 2019 1040 line 9 to see which deduction you took.  How much is on line 9?