# Saving money, cutting costs

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**Created:** [December 22, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/saving-money-cutting-costs/265835 "2012-12-22T20:54:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/saving-money-cutting-costs/265835/263 "2013-03-01T13:58:44Z")

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> [@Poll Threads - Merged](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/poll-threads-merged/51878/20):
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> Someone please tell me why a girl I know that has not had a job in…well, ever gets a fucking tax return? She lives in her boyfriends grandparents basement with her boyfriend. He’s also unemployed.

Unemployment checks get taxed too. You can either defer to pay the tax later and have to file tax form later and _owe_, or you can get them withheld as it goes and depending on your write offs and dependables you may be over paying just like a regular person would and get a return back.

What was the amount?

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