Homeless get nonprofit help applying for stimulus checks

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EVERETT — Penelope Protheroe posed the question over the steady, dull roar of traffic coming from I-5 overhead.

“Did you get your stimulus check?” she asked a homeless man who wandered over to the table that her nonprofit, Angel Resource Connection, erected beneath the overpass near the Everett Gospel Mission’s men’s shelter on Smith Avenue Monday evening.

Yes, he told her. The money will be deposited into his account because he receives Social Security benefits.

For other people who are homeless, though, the answer is less simple. Some don’t have email addresses or mailing addresses, both of which are key to getting the $1,200 checks that the federal government is distributing in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Many also haven’t recently filed tax returns, which complicates the registration process.

Protheroe and three other volunteers — each with laptops and Wi-Fi hotspots — were there to help. As papers on their clipboards flapped in the wind, they assisted a cluster of people in signing up for the checks, setting up email accounts when needed, and using the addresses of local homeless shelters for those without mailboxes.

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[LizBeth]

1. How long does the Federal Gov not have to do my tax returns? I filed electronically Apr 2.

They have not processed my refund and they do not have my new address because of it. They sent my stimulus to my old address May 1 and regardless of putting in another change of address with postal, talking to the manager at my old address, talking to one of the postal workers at my old address, leaving a note for the other postal worker that delivers there, and talking to the person now in my apartment, I have not received my stimulus and who knows where it is floating around in the system.

The "get payment" site only says they mailed out May 1. I cannot find anyone to contact or how to get a changed address into IRS.

There is about 2400 that the Gov owes me and I am not getting.

Edit: I am sorry. I did not know this was a state forum. I am going to leave the post though, in case anyone has any helpful information.

[Doreen]

2. Lewis County actually got I think around $83, 000 to

help the homeless ( with food mostly. )

It is surprising that my county would get that for the homeless. My county is not very homeless friendly.

It remains to be seen how much of that actually makes it to helping the homeless.

It is a good thing to happen but I sound kind of negative at the same time as I have lived here all of my life and I have seen how this red county works. If you live or have lived in Lewis county for many years you would know exactly what I mean.