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They take out a lot and you're thinking, i don't have it, i'll get it back at the end of the year and have a lump sum of money -- you may want to wait to spend that check. several states report they're not going to send out refund checks on time. delay the refund checks in some cases for months because of budget problems. let me tell you about budget problems. whatever. it includes the six states here. the upper right hand right-hand corner, from new york to hawaii. new york's already unpopular governor david patterson says the state may have to hang on to $500 million in refund to keep from r...

The early bird gets the worm or so the saying goes. if you filed your taxes already, don't expect a refund right away. in fact, many states are delaying this year's refunds. stephanie elam with the details. how long are people going to have to wait? >> for some it's going to be a few months at most. the issue here is really money. states are just running low on funds. hawaii is delaying its refunds until july 1st. north carolina is slowing down its refund checks but isn't giving a specific time frame. new york, they're just saying delays are possible. analysts say other states may be slowing d...

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Brian, thanks. elsewhere, the u.s. treasury department is under fire and fighting to maintain public trust after handing out billions of dollars to criminals. according to a startling government audit, the internal revenue service may have delivered more than $5 billion in 2011 refund checks to identity thieves. and federal investigators say $21 billion more could make its way into scammers' pockets over the next five years. the audit did find that the irs tracked down 940,000 fraudulent tax returns from 2011, including one address in michigan that was used to file more than 2,000 separate cla...

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