If you claimed an Earned Income Tax Credit and/or an Additional Child Tax Credit and filed before February 15, 2019, you’ll get your refund the week of February 27 at the earliest. The IRS states they will begin issuing tax refunds on returns with the EIC or Additional Child Tax Credit on February 27, 2019.
Please see the TurboTax FAQ below for additional information:
Some 2018 federal refunds will be delayed due to the PATH Act
my friend claimed the EIC and has already received her refund the first week in February
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p2043en.pdf">https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p2043en.pdf</a>
This is what the IRS shows, maybe due to every tax payer situation being different in complexity, that they received their refund sooner.
Claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit
If a taxpayer is claiming the EITC or the ACTC, they can file
their return any time after the filing season begins. However,
by law, the IRS cannot issue refunds before mid-February for
tax returns that claim the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) or
the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC). Keep in mind that only
a small percentage of total filers will fall into this situation.
While the IRS will process taxpayer returns when they are
received, it cannot issue related refunds before mid-February.
The IRS expects the earliest EITC/ACTC related refunds to be
available in taxpayer bank accounts or on debit cards starting
on Feb 27, 2019, if they chose direct deposit and there are no
other issues with their tax return.
I filed jan 24 with the EIC and my DDD is feb 22 iam still waiting for it to be sent
If the date your seeing is on TurboTax - TurboTax tracks whether your federal tax return as been accepted or rejected, and gives an estimate on when you can expect to receive your tax refund. TurboTax does not receive updates on your refund after it is accepted. After the IRS accepts the return, the next step is for the government to approve your refund.
For the most up to date information, the "Where's My Refund" (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.irs.gov/refunds">https://www.irs.gov/refunds</a>) lookup service provides a specific, personalized date for your tax refund.
If your return was accepted less than 21 days ago, hang in there. It can take anywhere from a few days to 3 weeks to go from acceptance to approval. This timeframe is unrelated to how, where, or when you filed and it isn't connected to how quickly you got your refund last year.