Campaign helps low-income citizens get stimulus payments

Monday marked the launch of an outreach campaign to help underprivileged citizens apply for economic stimulus payments.

Altogether, 36,000 eligible residents from Baltimore city and county, many of whom are senior citizens or are disabled, have not filed a tax return and therefore have not received a stimulus payment.

They first need to complete a mandatory tax return in order to file for a stimulus check, according to Joanna Smith-Ramani, Director of the CASH Campaign.

The CASH campaign is an 8 year-old coalition of nonprofits, community-based organizations and city agencies. The campaign is equipped with volunteers, including attorneys, to help citizens through the process. This past tax season, campaign volunteers prepared 13,400 returns for low income taxpayers.

The deadline to file for a stimulus check is October 15th. The payments are worth a minimum of $300 per person.