This year’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Day was hosted by the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency and the Atlanta Prosperity Campaign. Created in 1975 as an antipoverty program, the EITC is a refundable tax credit for individuals earning moderate to low incomes.  The EITC not only reduces the amount of federal income taxed owed by a qualifying taxpayer, but if no income taxes are owed, it returns money to the taxpayer in the form of a refund check, thereby supplementing their wages.  Atlanta City Employees Credit Union (ACECU) has partnered with this initiative to assist individuals of modest means gain financial education through the credit union’s many products and services.

Congressman John Lewis with ACECU President and CEO, Dean Gaymon and Cassandra Brown AVP of Marketing and Business Development