Unemployed people who overpaid taxes will get refunds starting in May, IRS says
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Unemployed Americans who filed their taxes early this season and may have overpaid can expect a refund starting in May, the government said Wednesday.
Under the American Rescue Plan, up to $10,200 in unemployment benefits for single people (and $20,400 for married couples) is exempt from federal income tax. But the law was signed March 11 — more than a month after tax-filing season started and some 66 million people had already filed their tax returns. For those taxpayers who already filed and received unemployment benefits last year, "the IRS will take steps in the spring and summer to make the appropriate change to their return, which may result in a refund. The first refunds are expected to be made in May and will continue into the summer," the agency said Wednesday.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.