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Originally posted by bryanthompson
As a success story, doesn't it offend you to see so many who don't need the help taking advantage of it? Does it occur to you that maybe the reason you had a tough time getting help from the programs might have been that there were ten (guessing) people taking advantage of the programs unnecessarily for every one of you that needed the help?
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Originally posted by bryanthompson
I've gone to H&R since I started needing to do taxes back in 1999. They've always found stuff for me, and this year was the best of all. Since I'm a full-time student, living at home, and my parents made too much money this year to qualify for the earned income credit for the other kids, I was able to claim them, since I do a lot of the work to help out. If you help them get to/from school, cook meals, etc., and basically are one of the main caregivers, and you live at home, you can qualify for it. I questioned how safe it was to do this, but my tax lady called H&$ Headquarters (?) and got verification that I met the requirements. Long story short, $5k came my way
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Do you see any irony in this? Isn't this just an unnecessary welfare payout thinly-veiled? I'm assuming from my reading that you didn't really
need the help- apologies if that reading is incorrect.