Alex S
Second Unit
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- Feb 21, 2000
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I heard they were supposed to start in July.
Anyone get their $400 per child tax credit yet?
Anyone get their $400 per child tax credit yet?
I work for the IRS, so I know there's no use in fighting thisthis doesn't make me feel very good
CJ
Carl - you didn't file electronically? Input error?No, I file on paper. People enter certain info from a paper return manually, into a database. Whoever entered the SS # for my daughter during processing made a mistake. The number I puton the return was correct. But the number which ended up in the database wasn't even close to her number, and got rejected when the computer picked up that the last name on our return for my daughter didn't match the last name for the SS #. It's convuluted I know, but that's how it works...or doesn't work in this case.
I guess I'm still not understanding at all why you can't challenge this successfully. All they'd have to do is check your original to see if you put in the correct information. If it was their mistake, they should fix the problem period. They sure as heck ain't always forgiving of mistakes made by the public. This just seems totally wrong.I'll explain it. Just please keep in mind that I agree with you in principle.
If you file a paper return, the info from it whether correctly transferred or not goes onto the database. Your paper return then gets filed away, while the numbers from your return end up in the database. Hopefully, these numbers are transfered correctly, and the accuracy rate is quite high but far from perfect.
When I first got a letter about the problem with my return back in April, I simply called, gave the correct number and the necessary info. The problem was manually corrected by a customer service rep to get me the rest of my refund, but the return itself which is on the database remains unchanged from how it was orginally filed, error included.
And that's where the problem is. We're talking about a 40 year old computer system, and there is no way to make the correction you, and I think should have been made...One that is system-wide and actually replaces the incorrect info with the correct info. There is simply no function to accomplish that task on the current system.
This means that in order for me to get the $400 I'm still entitled to now, there would have to be another manual correction to my account...A rep would have to fix this manually the same way they fixed the problem when they disallowed the exemption for my daughter.
But the reps aren't allowed to do this, because Congress made no provision for it when the credit was created. So what it boils down to is whether or not you want to take on Congress in a quest to right a wrong.
I'd rather just wait till next year
For those who have gotten it already is the last 2 digits of your SS# between 00 and 33Yes, my SSN ends in 09.