Jesus, that's not true. The money you use to pay for the passport you lose, the system is not designed to refund those $. It happened to me, I ended up paying $ 400 because I had to pay again for the extension.
The quickest solution is to request the extension and cancel the process of the new passport. It takes a couple of months and the money paid for the new passport is used to pay for the extension
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