WESTFIELD – The Westfield Council on Aging and AARP are looking for volunteers for the latter’s Tax-Aide Program, which has helped the city’s seniors prepare and file their taxes for free for the past 20 years.
“Senior citizens desperately need the help,” said local Tax-Aide Coordinator Daniel Welch. “They don’t understand it. They might not even try to file if they don’t understand it. It’s hard to get and to pay for someone to do it. It’s a great service for them.”
In Westfield, the program is operated out of the senior center at 45 Noble St. It handles personal state and federal tax returns, he said, not returns for businesses or depreciating real estate. It runs from Feb. 1 to April 15 every year.