this happened to me about 7 years ago. Me and my husband filed our taxes together for the first time and my back rejected the refund because it has both of our names on the check. This was Feb 14th. I spent the several MONTHS calling the IRS and getting no where. Once they were able to verify who we were 9which they had already tried to deposit the check already) it was going to be mailed. The check we were waiting on was over 8K dollars and we had to be out of our apartment and into our new one APril 1st and we needed that money to move. Well April 1st came and we had to go. NOW we had to change our address with the IRS. The post office does not forward IRS checks. i literally had given up. One day i was getting off work in the middle of June the mailman pulled up to me in the parking lot- he was our old mailman from the previous apartments. He had my check!!! He said that he knew if he sent it back that it would have taken months for me to get it. He was unaware that that shipped had already sailed because we had been waiting over 4 months already. So DOUBLE CHECK FOR YOUR BANKING INFORMATION. IF ITS A JOINT CHECK ITS GOT TO BE A JOINT CHECKING ACCOUNT. I LEARNED MY LESSON and if it wasnt for that mailman i dont know if i would have ever seen any of that money- that was already approved, sent and mine because once its returned you are screwed.
Good luck!
