Where's My Refund - Fact Sheet

Check Your Refund Status Online in English or Spanish

Where's My Refund? - one of IRS's most popular online features-gives taxpayers access to information about the status of their individual federal income tax refunds, regardless of whether they ask IRS to direct deposit their refunds to one, two or three accounts or request paper checks.  Other features let taxpayers:

  • Initiate a refund trace to re-issue lost or missing paper checks; and
  • Update their mailing addresses if the Postal Service returned their checks to IRS as undeliverable. 

 

Taxpayers who e-filed their returns can get refund information 72 hours after IRS acknowledged receipt of their returns. Taxpayers who filed paper returns can get refund information three to four weeks after mailing their returns.

Taxpayers can access Where's My Refund? at www.irs.gov. Spanish-speaking taxpayers can access their refund information via the IRS.gov Espanol portal. (However the refund trace and address change features are only available on the English version.) Clients without internet access can get the same information by calling IRS's Refund Hotline at 1-800-829-1954.

Where's My Refund? is:

  • Fast:  Check the status of your individual federal income tax refund virtually anytime, from anywhere.
  • Easy:  Simply enter your personal identification information-your Social Security number, filing status, and refund amount shown on your return.
  • Safe:  Interact online with the IRS through secure technology that protects the confidentiality of your personal information.
  • Convenient:  Check the status of a split refund; initiate a trace on a non-received paper check; and/or update your mailing address if your refund check was returned to IRS as undeliverable.
  • Popular: Join others who visited Where's My Refund? nearly 58 million times last year.

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Last updated: 1/5/10