Congressman Valadao Requests Answers for Central Valley Small Businesses ... sent a follow-up letter to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel regarding delays in processing Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) claims.
Continue pursuing relief for Central Valley small businesses facing delays in Employee Retention Tax Credit claims processing.
Occurrences
Evidence
As of the week ending 5/30/2026 the IRS had approximately 20,600 remaining ERC claims in various stages, including under review, pending payment or disallowance, under audit, awaiting review of disallowance responses, and with the Independent Office of Appeals; the IRS said it would update the page monthly.
Assessments
As of May 30, 2026, the IRS still reported about 20,600 ERC claims remaining in review, payment, disallowance, audit, appeals, or related stages, so the underlying relief problem for delayed claims was still not resolved during Valadao's current term. The provided record does not show a completed legislative or executive fix attributable to Valadao, and it also does not document enough specific follow-through by him to award full or partial delivery based on effort alone. Given the promise was to continue pursuing relief, but the available evidence only confirms the backlog persisted and not that a concrete relief outcome was achieved, the best judgment is unresolved rather than delivered or never.