Consumer Sundays: Tax credits, Money scams & Watchdog updates
And you thought there was nothing for you in that $700 billion rescue package... That was pretty useful information that Eileen told you about, wasn't it? There's mortgage debt forgiveness, a higher income amount for the alternative minimum tax, and two education tax breaks just to name a few to help out every day people cope in these tough times.
If you missed it, check out Eileen's personal finance column for the other tidbits available to taxpayers in the rescue plan.
Did you catch Liz's updates for prior Watchdog queries? She found the owner of that SUV that residents of the Park Circle neighborhood thought was abandoned. The clocktower in Govans is one step closer to telling the right time. Liz got the MTA to finally put up that bus shelter in Northeast Baltimore that Edna Moore Bedford wanted to rest in while she waited. Sadly, Ms. Bedford passed on July 25, ten days after Liz's initial column ran. Thanks to Ms. Beford, though, her fellow seniors will have a place to sit under shelter while they wait for the bus.
And finally, I know I can't be the only person getting these e-mail scams offering me money from the likes of people in Tanzania, Nigeria and even officials from the "IRS."
Why is it those letters are always full of misspellings? Why is it they always have terrible punctuation? Why do they mostly come from overseas? And does anyone out there know someone who has fallen for one of these scams? They're just so elaborate and over-the-top, it's hard not to chuckle when you read them.
Happy Monday everyone.
