| IRS offices to be open Saturday
The Internal Revenue Service will open offices in Denver, Colorado Springs, Grand Junction and Fort Collins, Saturday to help people file a tax return in order to receive their Economic Stimulus Payment, commonly referred to as a rebate.
The Fort Collins office is at 301 S. Howes St., the Denver office is at 600 17th St. Both will be open from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
IRS personnel will be on hand to answer questions about the Economic Stimulus payments and file tax returns, which taxpayers must do in order to receive a stimulus payment.
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Social Security recipients could get rebate checks
A tax rebate check from the federal government will be coming this spring or summer to a mailbox near you. The government is hoping you will go out and spend the money to stimulate the economy. But what about people living on Social Security or Supplemental Security Income? Will they share in the average $300 to $600 rebate checks going to 130 million Americans?
An estimated 20 million Americans on Social Security will receive rebate checks, according to a National Council on Aging fact sheet. No estimate is available of the number of SSI recipients who can expect to receive checks.First, Social Security recipients: To be eligible for a rebate check, they must have more than $3,000 in income and must file a 2007 tax return, even if their incomes are low enough that they are not required to file.
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