We wish we could tell you why your refund is delayed. All we can do is guess. Returns are not processed "first in, first out"--some returns are processed quickly and some are not. We do not have any way to know if your return went under review for some reason. In general if it goes under review you will either receive a letter or at least see a message about it on the IRS refund site. Reviews can be random or they can be for a reason -- like a W-2 not matching your return and the amount reported by an employer, for example. Returns that go under review require a human to perform the review--and the IRS sent a bunch of employees home for about two months. The clock stopped ticking on reviews. Now they are back and working on those returns again. The pandemic has thrown a huge monkey wrench into the IRS and many refunds are delayed. Read through this forum for awhile and you will see all kinds of people who filed months ago who are just as confused and frantic about their refunds as you are. Unless you get a letter or see a message displayed on the IRS site, speculating about the reason for your delayed refund does not help, nor can we offer any concrete solution other than to keep checking. If you want to try for help from a tax advocate here is some information---but some of them are still in quarantine, etc. and it may not be simple to get help.
At the following IRS website, find the USA map and click on your state, and it will give you the number of your area's IRS Taxpayer Advocate.
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Contact-a-Local-Taxpayer-Advocate
Also see this article for more info on how the Taxpayer Advocate Service works::
http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc104.html
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