I told my sister that since her husband has back child support that their entire refund would be taken...not just his part but hers as well ( Texas ). She asked so I tod her. I then pointed out to her the numerous articles stating the same information from the attorney generals website on the subject. She is convinced that they will only take 50% and not the entire thing. She said he was told that they would only take 50% of it since it was married filed jointly but I don't thin that is the case.
Saying all that I have her transcript pulled up right now and it updated to 846 refund issued for 2/24. When will they receive notification from the IRS on how much they are taking? It will either be a 151 or 203 code on WMR right ? Will it show on WMR when it updates to refund approved or will it show up after WMR updates to refund sent? I've never personally been through this so I don't really know what to tell her to look for only that they will send a letter in the mail but the letters from the IRS normally take a long time to come in the mail specially from the BFS service.
I might tell her to file an injured spouse form. They are getting back 14k due to unclaimed stimulus money and other over payments they made but I think the child support amount is around 18k or close to 19k... that's another story in itself.
