> Login.gov will catch up and meet IRS in the future as Direct File expands next filing season Are you confident login.gov will be caught up and avaialable by

> Login.gov will catch up and meet IRS in the future as Direct File expands next filing season Are you confident login.gov will be caught up and avaialable by next filing season and if so based on what? Your cite at [3] above (thanks!), is dated Feb 2022, and doesn't have a timeline, but also sort of implies that login.gov should be ready by the "next" tax season (Feb 2023), when it says "While Login.gov is not expected to be ready in time for use by taxpayers during the current tax season…" So this is now the third tax season since then that login.gov is still not available. What leads you think it'll be available next filing season? (Note: I am not saying it may not make sense to move ahead with the pilot in parallel anyway, instead of blocking on waiting for auth solution work. Certainly in a normal industry software engineering scenario, parallel development is often better than blocking. I don't really have an opinion here. I do wonder what the budget allocation to login.gov looks like and if it's really being considered a necessary component of this product or not…). [3] https://fedscoop.com/irs-to-adopt-login-gov-as-user-authentication-tool/ https://fedscoop.com/irs-to-adopt-login-gov-as-user-authenti...