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Speaker 1: Action for Boston Community Development, or ABCD, has good news

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Speaker 1: for many people looking for help and filing their taxes.

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Speaker 2: This is the ABCD Free Tax Preparation in partnership with

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Speaker 2: the IRS and coalitions across the state.

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Speaker 1: Sharon Scott Chandler, president and CEO of ABCD, says area

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Speaker 1: residents who earned sixty nine thousand dollars or less than

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five are eligible and encourages them to schedule

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Speaker 1: an appointment to get this done.

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Speaker 2: It's such an important program in service, especially now. I

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Speaker 2: mean the costs of everything are so high, you know,

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Speaker 2: food and energy and childcare. So even hundreds of dollars

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Speaker 2: and sometimes thousands of dollars back into people's pockets is

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Speaker 2: just it's helping them survive.

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Speaker 1: Carl Stevens WBC, Boston's news radio