Not true at all. I bet all these "answers" are copy/paste.
I filed in middle of January, and turbo tax told me, that I would get my refund 2/11/2020. Well guess what its 2/20/2020 and I still haven't received it yet. I didn't find out until a few days ago, that the IRS holds your return if you receive Earned Income Credit (EIC) until Middle/end of February for fraud/scam reasons, and then around now they will start to approve them and pay them out.
My refund went from a status bar to "We have received your refund, and it is being processed"
I've pretty much given up trying to plan anything around getting my return, since there are no more timelines anymore.
