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AARP can't open Tax Aide stations

by CRAIG NORTHRUP
Hagadone News Network | January 29, 2021 1:07 AM

Organizers are hopeful the AARP Tax Aide program will open for in-person assistance this year for those needing help filing taxes, but the complications of COVID-19 have made those plans tricky to negotiate.

Karen Cummings, district manager for AARP’s North Idaho Tax Aide program in Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls, Rathdrum and Kellogg, said the organization’s headquarters won’t allow volunteers and staff to open its doors in areas deemed too risky by a specific map, and that map considers the spread of COVID-19 in much of Kootenai County at epidemic levels...

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