i.r.s.s 16 million families have already filed their federal forms. if that is you, congrats. if not, we'd like to tell you where you can get some free help. look for the qr code on the screen during this story. >> you want to know where your money is going. >> lindsey rojas has said he filed her returns with a mental question mark. sometimes there's a hesitation. did i get all the credits i needed? >> she says that changed when she got free tack help through the united way in alameda. >> they made me feel welcome. that was important for me. >> united way bay area says they have lined much volunteers to help families file their tax returns for free. >> we want to make sure people. >>> it your household income is less than $73,000, you qualify. you can have a zoom session or portal, and in-person help at 100 locations around the bay areas. >> different sites have difficult protocol. >> reporter: we wanted toe know who was doing the math for you. all volunteers smu register with the i.r.s., co

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as well as a digital privacy release form for i.r.s.-related case work. additionally we just initiated a project to modernize and exemplify administrative forms requiring member signatures. such as the payroll authorization form and the student loan repayment program enrollment form. the select committee recommended we improve member access to innovative technology tools that enhance offices' operations. in response, the c.a.o. is build a house digital service team to, one, identify and deliver solutions that improve our member offices' most significant challenges. two, bring ideas and methodologies from the private sector into spaces within the house that have more freedom to experiment and its rate --ity rate. three, leverage -- iterate. three, leverage modern development tools to rapidly prototype and build production grade software and deliver better products and services to the house. the efforts of the select committee to further modernization for the house are tremendous and commendable. the c.a.o. is making substantial progress on these modernizat

i.r.s.have taxpayer to facial recognition scans if they want to see tax returns online. some lawmakers called it a huge mistake. you think? yeah. >> bill: you use facial i.d. do you do that? >> dana: with my phone. and at the airport. >> bill: i'm not into it. that i do. i can conceded with that. there is this, right? story we're fast moving. thousands of canadian truckers taking part in the freedom convoy jamming downtown ottawa. mayor turning to the central government for help to regain control of the city after declaring a state of emergency. canada's prime minister accusing the truckers of blockadeing democracy itself. here he is in parliament. >> individuals are trying to blockade our economy, our democracy, and our fellow citizens daily lives. it has to stop. >> bill: it hasn't. joe warmington is a reporter for the toronto sun. thank you for your time. want to get through a lot of stuff here. we found this very interesting. your piece that was filed february 8 there was a 78-year-old g

as noted, i.r.s. contribution limits has increased for the first time in two years. staff is working to provide interdepartmental messaging to inform all city employees of this change. limits is 20,500 for under 50 earning 41,000 for those who qualify for special catchup which is special provision only for government plan like the sfdcp. this ruling allows administrators to use electronic delivery as a default to provide information to participants. this includes beneficiaries. if a participant e-mail address is on file and the participant has been provided an opportunity to opt out of edelivery service. edelivery communication will include account statements, privacy notices, correspondence, transactional confirmations and planned disclosures. any bad e-mail addresses will revert back to the mail. the client experience can be found on page 7 of the memo. last is our record keeper. of note is our counselor department realignment. we have five retirement counselors that are assigned specific departments. would be in the field visit and providing service to those depar

a massive increase in the size of the i.r.s. a proposal to allow the i.r.s. to examine the details of americans' banking transactions. energy policies that would drive up the cost of electricity and gasoline for american families. billions for priorities like tree equity and environmental justice programs at well funded colleges and universities. mr. president, the list goes o. but it would be unfair for me to suggest that democrats have expended all their energy on tax and spending sprees. the administration has also found time to implement the democrats' original spending free, the american rescue plan, until they got caught, including free government crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia. onst covid front, the administration has struggled with testing. but it has found time for vaccine and mask mandates, some of which i believe have far exceeded the administration's authority. fortunately, the courts have stepped in to check some of the administration's excesses, like the administration's attempt to impose a vaccine mandate on large private-sector emplo

we're accustomed to the fact that the i.r.s. knows how much you make. that's how you calculate your taxes. but our democratic colleagues went so far as to inquire for every family, how much money do you spend and what do you spend it on? that sort of invasion of privacy is unprecedented. then our colleagues on the other side of the aisle tried to get involved in the child care business and dictate what sort of child care and where you would be able to get that child care and how much it would cost. basically saying to those who are motivated to help support families when it comes to child care that if you are a he a faith-based -- that if you're a faith-based organization, you're not going to qualify. and because of the huge influx of money the democrats were planning to put into child care, excluding a huge segment of the child care providers, it was going to result in scarce supply and run up the price, further exacerbating inflation. then we saw when it comes to the wealthy our democratic colleagues like to be the party of the average working person

an i.r.s. filing showed that executives at kaiser university, a supposedly nonprofit school, are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. yen when you hear the term not for profit, you think of a charitable institution, people just barely making enough to get by, service to principles and values? well, mr. kaiser and his gang have turned that upside down. hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, a hefty salary for part-time employees working for a nonprofit college. arthur kaiser is also notorious, the so-called federal watchdog, notorious for shady dealings. i'm not making this up for going to a source of fake news for it. these were detailed in a g.a.o. report last year. for example, in the year after kaiser university was converted into a not-for-profit college, not-for-profit, the school paid out more than $34 million to members of mr. kaiser's family winning. $34 million? that's right. to arthur kaiser's family. not bad for a not-for-profit venture. arthur kaiser's financial mis

why don't you just send a get well card to the i.r.s.? well, let me tell you something. on the energy and commerce committee have been asking, trying to work with federal agencies to get answers on the origin of the coronavirus, to get answers on the origin of the pandemic. so here we have the china bill before us today. ironically on groundhog's day, but here's the china bill, and by golly, we're going to get to the bottom of the coronavirus pandemic. . we get section 30219-b. report on origins of the covid-19 pandemic. what does the next line say? sense of congress. it is the sense of congress that blah, blah, blah. in other words, no force of law, no teeth, no requirement of any federal agency to do anything. no requirement really for even a real investigation, which is what, honestly, we need. we're sitting on the eve of olympic games that are going to be held in communist china. and we don't have answers for what caused this pandemic. we're going to have a moment of silence later this week, promotely so, another milestone of -- appropriately so, another milestones o

the i.r.s. do their job better. one of those bills called the i.r.s. customer service improvement act. this bill simply says that i.r.s. staffers cannot perform any union tasks during the tax season. it would seem to make sense. it doesn't keep them from doing it through the rest of the year. it's just not during the busy tax season. according to the treasury, fiscal year 2019, 1,400 treasury employees used over 350,000 hours of taxpayer-funded for union time. cost $17 million. of course that's kind of like chump day in this day and eaj. in indiana that's a lot of money. 1,500 were i.r.s. customer service representatives. 204 were i.r.s. agents. the american public deserves out of our agencies, i think, service better than that. we can debate how much money the i.r.s. needs to do its job, but we need commonsense policies like this to where we're not trying to restrict what already to many would seem unusual, that when you're on the dime, when you're being paid by the federal government, you mayb