If you are in default of your student loans, your federal refund can be taken, but generally you are notified before hand that it will be. The best course of action is to call your student loan company (or companies) and ask them if they have placed a tax refund offset on your account. If they have, it might not have gotten to the IRS offset department yet. If they haven't, then you should get your refund back .
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