Why not combine access to vital government benefits with a location that many low-income families frequent: the pediatrician’s office? In 2016, around 93% of children in the U.S. visited a pediatrician’s office. Instead of sending families across town to a tax-filing or benefits consultant, two residents of a hospital in Boston decided to bring the experts to the waiting rooms to help parents there.
This non-profit offers tax help to low-income parents in doctors’ waiting rooms
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