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Level 2
January 28, 2020
Question

Why does the Refund Advance Temporary Card not work?

  • January 28, 2020
  • 53 replies
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I have already contacted the customer service number for Green Dot, they could not tell me what was wrong or when it would be fixed. 

My return was accepted by the IRS, the $2,000 advance is in the account.

Every time I try to use the temporary card assigned that you are told can be used for online purchases it does not work. It does not work with any merchants across multiple platforms. 

What is the point of getting an advance within 1 hour* of IRS acceptance if you cannot access the money? Why should I have to wait 5-10 business days?! That is not an advance at all and will take the same amount of time if I just waited for the IRS to deposit in to my bank account.

 

This is shady, scammy, and unethical.

 

If this is not promptly resolved I will never use Turbo Tax again, I have used it for many years, and use it to file my family members for them as well. This is absurd.

    53 replies

    Level 2
    January 30, 2020

    How did y'all get a person on the phone? Every time I call the 888-285-4169 number, it wants me to type in the card number. I ordered the card on Jan 13th, but never received it. I can't type in a card number I never received. I need a person so I can order a new one.

    Level 2
    January 30, 2020

    you get a live person by waiting over an hour on the phone on hold. Don't worry just got my card in the mail but since the issues they had they canceled that one. sending a new one and that won't be here till February 3rd she said. This advanced refund sitting in my account for more than a week can use it by the time I get my card and able to use it the IRS will have deposited my refund. Good job turbo tax on selecting Green dot the worst company ever. Customer service is bad No one knows what's going. Pick another company 

    Level 2
    January 31, 2020

    I am having the same problem. I do not trust either company’s at this point. No one has a resolution, an answer or any way for us to access our “guaranteed” advance. They have left us out to dry and are using a bank with absolutely no customer service.  

    Level 2
    January 31, 2020

    Also, no use in waiting or asking for a manger.. they don’t have access to that. OH and no tracking number for a new card, because they have to send me one for I do not know what reason. They can’t offer me a tracking number for “security reasons”.. this is so fishy. They’re using a script and all they say is sorry I understand that’s all you’ll gets 

    Level 2
    February 3, 2020

    Hey I might be late at replying to your question and I hoped it has been resolved for you but I've also been going through the same thing all weekend. FINALLY,  I was able to transfer the funds from my temporary card to cash app.  At first I was trying to transfer the whole 500.00 and that kept getting declined.  So a few minutes ago i started transferring the money 100.00 at a time and it worked that way.  So I hope this helps some of you. 

    Level 2
    February 3, 2020

    Hey guys I had the same problem but instead of waiting for my personalized card to come in I had them send me another card, and my first card came in the next day, I felt so stupid, but to answer your question the reason the temp card don’t work is cause they messed up the info on cards, the expiration date and and the cvv number r different on your personalized card so when u put the info for the temp card in it’s not gonna work cause it’s invalid, and that wrong.

    Level 2
    February 4, 2020

    what i ended up doing was go on venmo/google pay/cash app set up the temporary turbo tax card number and acct/routing number as a payment method for instant transfer  and sent it to my other card to access the cash for physical payments/atm withdrawal. venmo and cash app have a fee tho. I think paypal would work too.

     

    Level 2
    February 6, 2020

    I was able to money gram the money to my checking acc!

    Level 2
    February 7, 2020

    It says i got $500 start using and i try to log in says wrong pass id only says its been deposited card ending 6578. So stupid

    Level 2
    February 8, 2020

    I was approved for 2k and it's been almost 21 hrs and its not showing on the "temporary card" anyone have this issue ? How long until the balance appeared?

    Level 2
    February 9, 2020

    I'm in the same boat..Cant use the online card,and on top of that several cards has been sent out because the first one never arrived..So I cant get access to my funds,so basically my money is stolen from turbotax third party greendot..Smh!

    Level 2
    February 9, 2020

    Omg nooo, dont tell me that. I called the # and they were useless. Asked for screenshots of my email from turbo saying I was approved for the advance? Huh? I've read a few ppl say it took 48 hrs to appear in the balance, so I'm trying not to lose hope here. I'll be furious if my card "gets lost" what a mess!