A Filipino worker on Wednesday lamented the non-release of his stimulus and tax rebate based on his and his wife\u2019s 2010 joint income tax return, saying the money will be used to pay for his mother\u2019s medical bills.<\/p>\n
Edwin G. Mendoza, who works as a security officer with G4S Security Services, during an interview showed a copy of the letter he personally delivered to the Department of Finance requesting for the immediate release of over $800 in stimulus and tax rebate.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter called and informed me that my mother is in the hospital and is in serious condition,\u201d Mendoza wrote in his letter stamped received at Finance Secretary\u2019s Office on Nov. 22.<\/p>\n
In one of the numerous phone calls he made to the Finance to follow up his emergency request, Mendoza was told, \u201cIt\u2019s disapproved\u201d without any explanation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know why they would disapprove my request considering it\u2019s an emergency,\u201d Mendoza told Saipan Tribune. \u201cThat\u2019s why I want to expose what Finance is doing. I want to know why they\u2019re delaying the release of my check when it\u2019s my money. Even the stimulus is federally funded.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mendoza, an immediate relative of a U.S. citizen, said he has been paying his taxes religiously and has pay stubs and income tax returns to prove it.<\/p>\n
He emphasized what the administration said about the release of tax refund and rebate checks especially in emergency cases. \u201cThis is already an emergency because of my mother\u2019s situation and they still won\u2019t release it. How much more for the others out there?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bringing to light what happened to him, Mendoza said, is his way of helping his fellow Filipinos and other foreign workers who have yet to receive the money due them by the local government.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have nothing to lose in exposing this. If nobody would expose this, they\u2019re just free to steal the people\u2019s money and that\u2019s the truth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mendoza, who is from Manila, said there are many Filipinos who are already headed back to the Philippines this month yet still haven\u2019t received their tax refunds and rebates after duly paying their obligations to the CNMI government.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel sorry for the ordinary \u2018Juan Dela Cruz,\u2019 who can\u2019t do anything but cry in silence since he can\u2019t do anything at this point and that\u2019s the reality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mendoza also said that he even wants to bring his situation to the next level and go to a lawyer but he is unsure if anybody would take his case.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m only after bringing this out for my fellow Filipinos,\u201d added Mendoza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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