Over the past two weeks, the nonprofit group Tax Help Colorado has been on the receiving end of panicked emails and calls from low-income people worried about how to file a tax return so they can get their federal stimulus payments, which can amount to as much as $1,200 per person.
Normally, Tax Help Colorado would direct callers to one of 40 free tax-preparing sites across the state, part of a national IRS volunteer program—but those shut down in mid-March amid the rising CCP virus crisis.
