
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, January 14, 1995                   TAG: 9501160077
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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3,000 RETIREES' REFUND CLAIMS ARE REJECTED

Nearly 3,000 federal retirees were denied refunds for overpaid Virginia taxes because their claims arrived too late or were ruled invalid for other reasons.

The problem applications are part of a settlement package with 169,000 retirees who overpaid state taxes and are due court-ordered rebates.

In some cases, claims mailed by the Nov. 1 deadline were rejected because the envelopes weren't postmarked until the following day.

Others had lost track of former spouses whose signatures were required, and some became too ill to return the documents in time.

In a few instances, Virginia officials sent incorrect settlement information to the retirees.

The denied claims likely will create more headaches for lawmakers who thought they had put the long-running dispute behind them.

- Associated Press

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