Sometime last year I wanted to stop these early child tax credit cheques being mailed to me. I was shocked that I had to use ID.me to even do this one thing.

OK fine, whatever. But then even after filling up all kinds of info, uploading pictures of my driver's licence and having literally scanned my face, it wouldn't let me login, because it can't "verify" me.

I've been filing taxes online for many years without issue.

I can't believe a private company gets to decide whether I can access IRS services.