Up to 21 million people who used services like TurboTax and H&R Block for tax filings face a stimulus check delay

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• People who filed taxes using H&R Block, TurboTax, and Jackson Hewitt faced a delay receiving their $1,200 stimulus checks.
• The IRS didn't have the information on file for people who used those or similar tax-prep services.
• Up to 21 million people were affected, one consumer law expert told The Post.
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Up to 21 million people who used tax-filing services like H&R Block, TurboTax, and Jackson Hewitt faced a delay receiving their stimulus checks to their bank accounts because the Internal Revenue Service did not have their direct-deposit information, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Consumer-law expert Vijay Raghavan told The Post the hiccup occurred because the IRS did not have direct-deposit information for people if they got an advance on their tax refund or if they had their tax prep fee pulled out of their refund.

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