@jadenk7 your exactly right! And this year I am claiming head of household and have a qualifying niece and I haven’t in the past probably four years and that shouldn’t even make a difference I mean circumstances change for people especially in this world we live in right now.!! My niece needed a place to live and stay while she’s in college and she’s 18 and if I could provide a place for her to come and help my sister and brother-in-law out . because they had no money to help her with rent etc. thad exactly what I did. I digress, my point even if circumstances change it shouldn’t even make a difference. I think they’re all just probably overwhelmed and inundated and it’s part of the shut down. when the shut down ended they still hadn’t trained a bunch of workers , I imagine over and above the fact that yes you’re right I think people are overloading the system and that’s why the bars are disappearing. I think it stinks That the IRS workers and us as individuals had to pay the price for a shut down. But that being said I don’t want this to be a political conversation but it is very unfortunate because I’m sure all the IRS workers are ready to pull their hair out, I would be
