I had contacted my congressman's office and spoke to one of his staff. They have had many inquiries about this. They contacted the IRS. The explanation is essentially there was a huge backlog from 2019 returns coming into this year. IRS staff was impacted not only by Covid, but by the need to be diverted to sending out relief checks. Bottom line is there is a backlog of 17 (?) million claims to be processed yet. Calling IRS will not help. The backlog is still there. By a fluke, some people who filed in February were able to get refunds. This was the situation a month ago. If anything has changed I'm not aware of it. It will still take weeks. I resigned myself to this.
