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Hundreds of Long Island workers may be in jeopardy of losing out on thousands of dollars in tax credits simply because they don't know what may be available to them. The Earned Income Tax Credit is a special credit for families earning less than $49,000 a year. One Coram mother says she missed out on the credit for years, until last year, when she filed for it and got a nearly $10,000 credit. Rep. Tim Bishop (D-Southampton) says the tax credit can truly have an impact on Long Island's economy. The money can help low-income families pay off bills and purchase big-ticket items that they've been putting off replacing.To watch today's news conference on explaining the Earned Income Tax Credit, click on iO Extra on Channel 612.

Hundreds of Long Island workers may be in jeopardy of losing out on thousands of dollars in tax credits simply because they don't know what may be available to them. The Earned Income Tax Credit is a

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Saw all the holiday festivities happening over the weekend. It's nice to see Long Islanders still come out even though the weather wasn't so far. Absolutely. You know, it's tough when they cancel the thing, you're in the mood and then you got to move it to another weekend. I want the trees lit. Now, let's get going. Let's start that holiday season. Now, Jen, out here this morning we do have some patchy fog and otherwise we're drying things out. That is the good news outside our Beth Page studio, quiet weather conditions out the door right now and take a look at our visibility. We do have some fog. Western Seven County. It's a National county. Visibility has come down a little bit this morning. Otherwise, once we see that sunrise just after 7 a.m. we'll see that sunshine to start our day. Now, typical, average low is around 34. So it's kind of mild out the door right now. You can see our numbers at 44 degrees in Medford, 42 in Huntington, 45 in Valley Stream to 44 and Hempstead, 44 Bridge Hampton, 47 degrees in Monta. Let's see what's happening throughout our day. If you're going to be around Brentwood to central Islip, to Kings Park, you're looking at sunshine this morning, average temperature around 4852 degrees at noon time, clouds are coming in during the afternoon hours and we'll see dry conditions even though we'll have the clouds and your evening rush hour will be dry with temperature in the forties. So quiet conditions right now, any wet weather with all the rain yesterday is now gone. We're looking at some sunshine to start our day. And overall this week, kind of quiet. Look at that as we go towards Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, tracking some wet weather now Sunday into Monday. So overall it's a quiet weather week, temperatures throughout the morning hours. Let's take a look. Here's 945 forties this morning, fifties for this afternoon, notice a lot of clouds but it's dry this afternoon around Long Island, getting home from school, getting home from work overnight. We start with clouds clearing skies towards Tuesday morning. Lower in the thirties to start your Tuesday morning. Yeah, it's a little colder tomorrow morning. And then tomorrow afternoon we do it again. Sunshine the clouds, but tomorrow's colder hyper local high temperature only around 45 degrees and then tracking some rain. Sunday afternoon through Sunday night into your Monday. Out here for today. Highs are in the fifties morning, sunshine, afternoon clouds tonight lows are in the thirties. We start with clouds we go to clear skies, colder weather tomorrow morning. Here's that extended forecast, quiet during our week, but cold Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, sort of. Hanukkah's dry next out of rain. Really? Sunday into Monday? All right.

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Hundreds of LI families may qualify for extra tax credit