I spoke with another rep at the IRS today. The only info she could provide was a scripted response that said that it could take 10 weeks from date of acceptance.
My return was accepted on 2.12, so today marks 4 weeks. So I could have to wait 6 more weeks before getting my money OR hearing if there are issues. When I tried to probe on it, she just went back to the script. I acknowledged that they are probably in a bad way and getting a lot of calls and she appreciated that. I mean, it's not her fault.
Here's what I'm not clear on: at what point do they need to stay paying interest? Is it after 21 days? Or longer? My guess would be that they'll drag it out as long as possible but issue the payment before they need to give us even more money back. But I don't know how that works.
