When I hear that the amount of income tax refunds is down, I interpret that as more people paid the proper amount of taxes through the year and did not send extra money to the IRS. When you overpay during the year the IRS has your money, interest free. Sure, interest rates are not what they used to be. But if you had that money in hand you could apply it towards debt you may have, and there is certainly an interest rate associated there.
Now maybe the amount is down because people are earning less, but this fact is not stated or proven in the article. Without knowing the reason, I'll just remind you that the frugal approach would be to get to the end of the year and not owe the IRS and not have them owe you.
If you are curious about the status of your refund check you can go to www.irs.gov and look under the "where's my refund".
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