Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Do you love your job enough to do it for free This man does.
Do you love your job enough to do it for free This man does.Do you love your job enough to do it for free This man does.One man will stop at nothing to get other peoples tax returns done- even though hes not getting paid to do them.At 82 years old, full-time volunteer Andrew Benjamin has done50,000 tax returnsover the last 35 years, asestimated bythe nonprofit he works for, and reported byKARE 11 in Minnesota.Retired now, he used to work in the finance industry. He often works twice a day, and isreportedly one of 500 volunteer tax preparers at nonprofit Prepare + Prosper in St. Paul.Apparently, not even sickness could hold Benjamin back. Hereportedly had lung cancer two years ago, but only stopped doing tax returns when he was hospitalized for for 19 days.Right during the middle of tax season, I was really madI kept thinking about all the people I was not able to help with their taxes, Benjamin told KARE 11.The holiday season also doesnt seem to give him reason to slow down, and he works on his time away from Prepare + Prosper.After every Christmas, tax returns he prepares for no cost at a community center on his free day pile up on his dining room table at home. His wifereportedlylets him keep them there. Some people also leavetheir taxreturns at Benjamins home.The popularity of volunteer workMany older Americans How does Benjamins time spent working for free stack up?About 62.6 million people volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2014 and September 2015, according to a 2015 Economic News Release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Working people also took the time to volunteer.Among the employed, 27.2 percent volunteered during the year ending in September 2015. By comparison, 23.3 percent of unemployed persons and 21.4 percent of those not in the labor force volunteered, the organization reported in the same news release.But how convenient would it be to have someone like Benjamin around during tax season?
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