I had to amend my tax return to credit a business loss. The IRS sent me a letter stating they had adjusted the amended tax return amount in accordance with new tax credits and stated I would receive my amended refund in 2-3 weeks after the date of the letter. It's now been 3 1/2 weeks and I haven't gotten a refund. When I contact the IRS hotline to find the status on this, there's no record of it according to the automated voicemail and when I try to talk to a rep, I get immediately cut off. I desperately need this refund and I'm going out of my mind with worry. What can I do?

My only suggestion is that you keep calling OR write a registered letter which they probably won't respond to for quite a while.

No one here has any special "ins" with IRS.

Keep calling, but the timeline for processing the amendment is overly optimistic In my opinion.

Amendments normally take 6 - 8 weeks.