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You can definitely use your exemptions to save your tax refund, thats what we did in ours. I'm not sure about timing, we filled in September and were discharged in December, so ours was close to tax time. Hopefully someone that has filed during the earlier months can give you a better answer on the timing. Good Luck!
Our attorney was able to keep our refunds out of the BK.