1.   Among options he ruled out today were selling any of the U.S. gold reserves or delaying income tax refunds to Americans.

2.   Alabama temporarily delayed income tax refunds.

3.   Failure to do so could delay your refund.

4.   Missing Social Security numbers will delay a refund, and all tax credits will be verified before that portion of the refund is mailed.

5.   That is delaying some refunds by up to eight weeks.

6.   The confusion is delaying refunds on some returns by about a week, the IRS estimates.

7.   The IRS wants you to blame someone else if your tax refund is delayed.

8.   The lid established by the formula has been surpassed the last three fiscal years, but legal actions had delayed refunds.

9.   This year the IRS does not know exactly how many refunds have been delayed, Brown said.

10.   According to the IRS, sometimes a refund is delayed by past-due federal debts, such as delinquent student loans or child support.