Workshops to train volunteers to fill out Circuit Breaker forms

The Southeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging, in cooperation with the Missouri Deparment of Revenue, will conduct training for volunteers to help fill out Missouri Property Tax Credit forms.

This program, known as the Circuit Breaker program, offers eligible individuals a rebate for property tax or rent paid. Eligibility criteria include having income of less than $25,000 for an individual, being 65 years of age or older or 100 percent disabled and residing in Missouri for the entire filing year. In past years, filers received refunds averaging around $250 each.

Two volunteer training workshops, about two hours in length, will be availabe to anyone interested in helping seniors to complete the forms. Although the tax credit forms are fairly simple, untrained individuals sometimes have difficulty filling them out.

The workshops take place at 10 a.m. Jan. 6 at First Christian Church, 2411 Abbey Road, Cape Girardeau, and at 10 a.m. Jan. 7 at Twin Towers, 506 F Hazel St., Poplar Bluff.

Volunteers will be available to help seniors apply for the credits beginning in late January.

For more information, call Ruth Dockins at the Southeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging at 335-3331 or (800) 392-8771.