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Seniors! Want a rebate? Better file a tax return |
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
PAWTUCKET — Senior citizens who collected at least $3,000 in Social Security benefits in 2007 will be eligible for a rebate check of $300 or more from Uncle Sam, but you must file an income tax return to get it, even if you don’t owe any taxes.
Those are some of the rules seniors must know to get the money that is coming to them and that will be explained Tuesday by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse at an information session scheduled in Pawtucket. Whitehouse will be at the Leon Mathieu Senior Center at 420 Main St. at 10:30 a.m. along with representatives of the IRS and AARP to tell seniors how the process works and help them fill out the necessary forms.
The meeting is the first of several Whitehouse hopes to hold with seniors across the state.
“Thousands of Rhode Island seniors are struggling every day to get by. It’s important that they know Congress has made this assistance available, and what they need to do now to get it,” said Whitehouse, a member of the Senate Budget and Aging Committees. “I’ve asked the IRS and several other organizations to join me in getting seniors the information they need to take advantage of this opportunity.
Whitehouse said he worked with Senate leaders to expand the stimulus package proposed by the Bush administration so that it included seniors who would otherwise have been ineligible.
These are the members of America’s Greatest Generation. They worked hard to raise their children, support their families, and give back to their communities. They deserve better than long days of difficult choices with no good answers. That’s why, as Congress considered emergency legislation to put money back in people’s pockets and get our economy moving again, I called on Senate leaders to make certain that some of that money would go to the 21.1 million older Americans in this country who live on Social Security.”
Under the new law, the federal government will provide rebate checks, starting at $300, to low- and middle-income Americans, including seniors living on Social Security benefits and disabled veterans or their survivors. These tax-free rebates will be sent automatically to eligible Americans who file a federal income tax return for 2007.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 20 March 2008 )
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