@Candydefrain You posted to a thread that is very old--probably several years old. When the Answer Xchange became Real Money Talk, a lot of posts migrated over with 2019 dates even if they were old. We cannot tell what credit you are referring to, although the original poster was asking about earned income credit.
"They blamed me, saying I declined the credit."
It is not possible to decline the earned income credit. If you qualify for it, the software adds it to your refund automatically. It sounds like you have had a delay, but it is unlikely that it is anything to do with EIC. Did you actually talk to someone at the IRS? Did you receive a letter of any kind from the IRS? What does it say on the IRS refund site?
Once your federal return has been accepted by the IRS, only the IRS has any control. TurboTax does not receive any updates from the IRS. Your ONLY source of information about your refund now is the IRS.
You need your filing status, your Social Security number and the exact amount (line 20 of your Form 1040) of your federal refund to track your Federal refund:
https://www.irs.gov/refunds
And----if this has something to do with Earned Income Credit---look at your tax return. Do you see earned income credit shown on line 18a of your Form 1040?
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