grits
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Length of time between refund accepted and refund approved (with tax offset)

This year we filed our taxes on 1/22 and it was accepted by the IRS on 1/24. We do have a small tax offset for our state income taxes, but we're still expecting a substancial refund.

I started checking the WMR website on Monday and it is still saying that our return was accepted, but hasn't approved our refund yet. Today was the first day that it had a link about Topic 152, but it still doesn't say our refund was approved. Last year we also had an offset and I was surprised by how quickly we got our refund. If I'm not mistaken it was in our bank in less than 3 weeks.

Does the Topic 152 link mean that our refund is close to being approved? Is the tax offset delaying the approval of our refund?

Thanks!