Word: refund
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year Bernice received a $1,000 refund from the EITC. Some years she needs the refund for emergency repairs. This time she indulged in a small luxury for herself; she bought a treadmill. "You'd be depressed if you didn't treat yourself sometimes," she reasons. "I work every night, and I still can't make ends meet." She knows that there are people on welfare who are collecting more than she does. "But I believe in earning my way." The family has no savings at all. Son Jodie just graduated from high school, but Bernice couldn't afford...
Moel says he wants to look into a front-end refund instead of a back-end rebate...
...council also passed a bill to ask the Faculty Council to allow students to receive a full refund of the council fee when they exercise their term-bill check off option, sponsored by Campus Life Committee Co-chair Rudd W. Coffey...
...audits. While encouraging taxpayers to file electronically-mainly to save irs manpower and paper work-this year the tax collectors returned, often for minor clerical errors, fully 20% of the 9.9 million electronic returns submitted through late March. The irs is running 11% behind last year in processing refunds, which exerts a $4.6 billion drag on the economy and is depressing retail sales nationwide. These delays often amount to eight to 12 weeks, an excruciating lag for low-income taxpayers counting on their refund to fix the car or pay the rent. Some such workers, accustomed to quick refunds, have...
...available to workers too poor to owe income tax and is intended to make work more attractive than welfare. The credit, however, has been susceptible to fraud. In order to catch the cheats, the irs has also punished honest taxpayers. Low-income workers for whom the earned-income refund is the biggest chunk of cash they see all year have been waiting eight to 12 weeks or longer. Emma Mejia, 48, a single mother of two, has been waiting for her $2,528 refund since the first week of February -- and has lost her job washing laundry in a Chicago...