The Cuyahoga Earned Income Tax Credit

A free tax preparation service for low and moderate income families

For each $3,000 a year in added EITC credits that children in a working-low income family receives before age 6...

...their working hours increase by 135 hours a year between the ages of 25 and 37, and their annual earnings increase by 17%.

Over 121,000 families have received free tax help since 2005.
The Coalition returns $30 to the local economy for every $1 spent on program costs.
In 2017, the Cuyahoga EITC Coalition completed 13,466 federal tax returns.
Refunds totaling over $20.0 million were put back into the pockets of low and moderate income families and spent in the local economy.