{"id":9579,"date":"2017-08-11T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taxprocenter.proconnect.intuit.com\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2017-08-11T10:02:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T15:02:50","slug":"meet-the-difference-makers-ladder-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accountants.intuit.com\/taxprocenter\/client-relationships\/meet-the-difference-makers-ladder-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Difference Makers: Ladder Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9583 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/taxprocenter.proconnect.intuit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/lambert-headshot.png\" alt=\"Lambert Headshot\" width=\"175\" height=\"212\" \/>Since 1994, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goladderup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wa-link=\"body_ladderup\" target=\"_blank\">Ladder Up<\/a> has been providing free tax return preparation, college financial aid application assistance and financial literacy services to the greater Chicago area. I spoke with Jennifer Lambert, tax program manager at Ladder Up, to learn more about the organization and her work.<\/p>\n<p>Ladder Up offers free tax preparation through the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, serving individuals making up to $30,000 annually and families making up to $55,000 annually. Ladder Up mobilizes and trains more than 1,000 volunteers at 16 sites in the greater Chicago area over the 12-week tax season to help members of the community file their taxes. According to Lambert, during this last program year, the organization prepared 11,275 tax returns, helping clients access $17.5 million in refunds.<\/p>\n<p>Lambert spoke of the huge impact Ladder Up has on its client base. \u201cOften, clients will come to one of our sites, and a volunteer will find that their return has been done incorrectly \u2013 and they paid to get it completed. When they come to us and we fix their return, they often see a huge increase in their refund. I worked on one of these returns where my client\u2019s children weren\u2019t being claimed for the Earned Income Credit. When I fixed it, I was able to increase the refund by $5,000. It\u2019s rewarding to be able to create such huge benefits for our clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ladder Up has used Intuit\u00ae ProConnect\u2122 <a href=\"https:\/\/proconnect.intuit.com\/proseries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wa-link=\"body_ps\">ProSeries<\/a>\u00ae for its tax assistance program since 2006. \u201cProSeries has been beneficial for us in a lot of ways,\u201d said Lambert. \u201cIt\u2019s user friendly, so our volunteers can understand it even if they don&#8217;t use it in their own tax practices. We feel confident that the tax returns are correct, and the program runs smoothly, from data entry to e-file. 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