According to reports, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disallowed a tax refund to a woman from New Jersey because they thought she had passed away.
Jeanette Carpenter, a citizen of New Jersey and employee of the government, informed New York City television station WPIX that when she filed her taxes in 2020, her Social Security number was shown as belonging to a deceased person.
Carpenter said she received the same response even after her accountant reapplied three times:
“My Social Security number belongs to a deceased individual.” “I inquired if they were confusing me with my late spouse, who died in 2009, and they answered no. I work for the government, which puzzles me.
The administration also admitted to failing to send a death certificate or notify the IRS of her passing.
However, she was informed that nothing could be done because she was thought to have passed away when she called the IRS later that month.
Carpenter claimed to have received a letter from the IRS informing her that the problem prevented the processing of her taxes.
“Nothing exists. She added, “I can’t get through to them. My stimulus checks have not arrived.
I need to know what they are going to do with the 2020 taxes before I file my 2021 taxes. However, I am vibrantly alive. I’m not dead, either.
She asserted that whenever she had money owed to the IRS, there was never a problem.
I had a debt of $1,300 in 2018. I deposited money in my account, and when I awoke two days later, the IRS had taken the $1,300 that was owed to them, the woman claimed.
Carpenter now needs the money she is owed to pay for medical expenses related to a major operation she underwent in 2020.
A woman from New Jersey reportedly had her tax refund denied by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) because they believed she had passed deceased.
Government employee Jeanette Carpenter, a resident of New Jersey, told New York City television station WPIX that her Social Security number was shown as belonging to a deceased person when she paid her taxes in 2020.
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My left kidney, my spleen, and my pancreas were all removed from the left side, she said.
Carpenter is not the only person to assert that they have experienced difficulties getting tax returns from the IRS due to the same problem.
Adam Ronning, 33, said to Minnesota’s Fox 9 in May 2017 that he had been certified deceased at the age of 4.
His mother was initially informed that there was a “computer fault,” but he claimed he has spent years trying to fix it.
According to Ronning, the IRS accepted his tax payments as though he were still living, but said he was not given a tax refund “since I was deceased.”
Carpenter is currently in need of the money she is owed to cover medical costs connected to a significant operation she underwent in 2020.
