Amazon Bonus (10%) for H&R Block Deluxe

[rahaparta]

Sent tax return (e-file with H&R Block Deluxe) and already received IRS confirmation that refund is being sent to bank in next 24 hours.

The way the bonus refund works at e-file time is that any 100 divisible amount, ie. 500, 1000, 3000, 5500 etc is being split into a separate account that H&R Block software inserts automatically, it "knows" and enters the routing and account and any amount that can not be divided by 100 must be sent to an individual/personal checking or savings, ie. 7, 15, 99 etc

Does anyone know what happens next? H&R Block sends an email with a long list of Amazon Gift Card numbers to Cut and Paste into an Amazon logged on account / Apply Gift Card / something else ? There is no tracking for the H&R Block / Amazon side of the refund, is there ? How soon do they (it is some outside company that handles the funds for Amazon) send the Gift Cards ?

[NorthernBlitz]

We did this last year, diverting $500 of our federal return to Amazon cards and picking up $50 from HR Block.

I don't remember exactly when we filed (I usually do it sometime before the middle of March), but we received an e-mail from HR block with a code for Amazon for the full $550 on April 1.