{"id":109435,"date":"2026-02-09T21:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109435\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:42:46","slug":"university-of-scranton-students-providing-free-tax-help-through-vita-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109435\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Scranton students providing free tax help through VITA program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The VITA program offers assistance to local residents filing their local, state, and federal tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Need help filing your taxes? University of Scranton students have you covered.<\/p>\n<p>Accounting students and professional volunteers are providing free tax assistance through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program.<\/p>\n<p>The service is available to residents of Lackawanna and Wayne counties with household incomes of $67,000 or less in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found out about it through friends of ours, and we started coming. It&#8217;s really great, great for people like the elderly. It helps financially. You go to a tax preparer, and they charge you $125 to do a short form,&#8221; said Debbie Kuzmak, Jermyn.<\/p>\n<p>The VITA program offers the following schedule:<\/p>\n<p>Monday &#8211; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.Tuesday -12 p.m. to 5 p.m.Wednesday &#8211; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.Friday &#8211; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.March 16 &amp; March 20 \u2013 Closed                    <\/p>\n<p>The program ends on April 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The VITA program offers assistance to local residents filing their local, state, and federal tax returns. SCRANTON, Pa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-109435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}