@blanchardmv = here is what the IRS website states -
"The IRS is opening mail within normal timeframes and all paper and electronic individual refund returns received prior to April 2021 have been processed if the return had no errors or did not require further review.
As of April 29, 2022, we had 9.6 million unprocessed individual returns which include returns received before 2022, and new tax year 2021 returns. Of these, 2.9 million returns require error correction or other special handling, and 6.7 million are paper returns waiting to be reviewed and processed."
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-operations-during-covid-19-mission-critical-functions-continue#coll...
it doesn't state that returns filed prior to April 2022 have been processed. Note that most of the backlog (6.7MM of 9.6MM are paper). The IRS told Congress that it commits to getting back to normal backlogs by the end of the year.
