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Advocate shares tips on how to help potential domestic abuse victims
Police say a recent fatal shooting in downtown Bellevue was a domestic violence homicide. An advocate for victims says these crimes are 100% preventable. Author: Ted Land Updated: 9:22 PM PDT July 7, 2021
SEATTLE Court documents show the man who opened fire inside a Bellevue tavern Monday shot and killed his estranged wife because she was seeing another man.
Police say it was a case of domestic violence homicide. The suspect allegedly planned the shooting, found a gun, and targeted the woman at her workplace.
“It s an unspeakable tragedy. It s devastating for families and for the surviving children, and it happens too often,” said Judy Chen, executive director of the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
by Tim Gruver, The Center Square | April 13, 2021 02:00 PM Print this article
The Washington Legislature passed a tax credit in 2008 for struggling families at the height of the Great Recession. One pandemic later, state lawmakers are setting out to expand and enact it.
The Working Families Tax Exemption (WFTE) was a state-level model of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which cuts tax burdens on moderate to low-income families based on annual income and their number of children. In 2020, the EITC was open to individuals making $15,820 per year and joint filers taking home $21,710 per year qualified.
The WFTE was written as a sales and use tax remittance program available to anyone living in Washington for 180 days who paid sales and use taxes. The remittance is 10% of their federal EITC tax rebate or $50. To this day, the WFTE was never funded or enacted in the state s operating budget as required by law.