@ Truck68
If you're having a hardship, here's something else you can do in regards to your Federal refund.
If your Federal refund has been delayed, and you can't get good info from the IRS (see how to contact the IRS in DoninGA's instructions higher in this thread), or if you can't reach them, contact the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service. They are especially prone to help if you have an economic hardship, or if there have been continued delays with lack of info from the IRS. At the following IRS website, find the USA map and click on your state, and it will give you the number of your IRS Taxpayer Advocate. If the Taxpayer Advocate can't/won't help you, ask them to transfer you to an an IRS agent. A couple of users reported that at least for them, that was a backdoor route to the IRS.
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Contact-a-Local-Taxpayer-Advocate
Also see this article for more info on how the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service works::
http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc104.html
