My first IRS fiasco ever.....
Chasing down a '14 Tax Refund . The twist is I chose to have the refund put on a NetSpend VISA card ( won't do that again ) 1. Refund by IRS 3 NOV 2. 3 NOV, Rx email from bank I need to get ahold of them 3. 5 Nov , contact bank. Told funds were returned to sender. 4. Contact bank 2 more times before they finally give me a transaction number. 5. Contact TurboTax for help tracking . Told to to contact IRS. Would hate to see how they react if I had got audited? 6,. Spent six weeks.. yes you read that right .. SIX WEEKS trying to get through .. finally. A competent person ( yes I was shocked ) on the other line gives me the bad news. No funds returned, but , i get a routing number that the money was sent to and a phone number. ****Now... one would assume, this would send me back to the NetSpend financial institution , but.. it doesn't. *** 7. Contact the GreenDot bank ( they handle cards that you put money into , apparently for folks with c