A growing number of filers are facing tax refund delays amid a government-wide phaseout of paper checks . House Ways and Means Committee Democrats this week sent another letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, with "additional concerns" about roughly 1.4 million IRS notices sent to filers about refund delays related to paper payment requests. At the time of the lawmakers' initial letter, dated March 9, they said more than 830,000 taxpayers had received such notices. The IRS notice, known as