Help provide free tax preparation to low- and moderate-income families through United Way of the Capital Region’s Money in Your Pocket (MIYP) campaign. You’ll help ensure working families in our community claim all available tax credits while saving them the cost of high tax preparation fees and refund anticipation loan interest rates.

• No previous experience necessary - returns are prepared with easy-to-use computer software.
• Learn a valuable skill - volunteers receive IRS tax training and certification, which can help volunteers in both their personal and professional lives.
• Make a big impact - you can help a family receive thousands of dollars in Earned Income Credits and Child Tax Credits, which are the nation’s largest anti-poverty programs.
• Flexible enough for any schedule - volunteer days, nights or weekends at one of 15 tax prep sites within our footprint of Cumberland, Dauphin and Perry counties. Most volunteers work one day a week during tax season (late January through mid-April).
• Other ways to volunteer - you can also serve as a greeter, screener, local tax preparer or translator at one of our tax sites. Some positions do not require any tax preparing.

MIYP Tax Year 2018 Highlights

• 4,691 federal returns filed

• $4.6 million returned to our community

• $22,100 – average annual income for clients receiving service

• 6% – average increase in household income with refund

• $745,869 saved in tax preparation fees (based on average cost of $159 per return)

• 272 volunteers

• 15 sites in Dauphin, Cumberland and Perry counties

• 2 sites through a partnership in Mifflin and Juniata counties

For More Information

Contact Heidi Neuhaus at hneuhaus@uwcr.org or call 717.724.4055

• Tuesday, October 29: 6-7 p.m.
Employment Skills Center
29 S. Hanover Street, Carlisle

• Monday, November 11: 6-7 p.m.
Widener Law Commonwealth
Classroom & Law Library Building, Computer Lab
3800 Vartan Way, Harrisburg

• Tuesday, November 12: 6-7 p.m.
Perry County Literacy Council
133 South 5th Street, Newport

• Wednesday, November 20: 5:30 p.m.
United Way of the Capital Region
2235 Millennium Way, Enola

Sign up online at: http://uwcr.partnershipplanners.org/openhouse

Questions? Contact Heidi Neuhaus at hneuhaus@uwcr.org or call 717.724.4055.

• United Way of the Capital Region - Lead Agency
• Belco Community Credit Union
• Bosler Memorial Library
• Central Pennsylvania Food Bank
• Dickinson College
• Employment Skills Center
• First Christian Church of Lemoyne
• HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College
• Market Square Presbyterian Church
• Messiah College
• Middletown Public Library

• Mifflin-Juniata Human Services
• New Hope Ministries, Inc.
• Penn State Dickinson School of Law
• Penn National Insurance
• Perry County Literacy Council
• PNC
• Shippensburg University
• Tri County Community Action
• United Way of Carlisle and Cumberland County
• U.S. Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service
• Widener University Commonwealth Law School