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Why - because they use the same system that almost every other tax processing company uses - they all have the same issue.   It is the IRS that decided to use the tax return refund method to distribute the stimulus that nobody could have predicted in advance, and the IRS failed to test the feasibility  of doing it this way.   It would not have been difficult for IRS to look at it's data base to find out what they wanted to do could not be done with the data that they had.

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