Donate My Car To Charity – What’s In It For Me?
There has always been the option of donating your old car to a charity, and still is. But as recent as 2009, the U.S. Government sponsored a program that would pay you cold, hard cash for your old clunker.
This “cash for clunkers” program, called the Car Allowance Rebate System, provided three billion dollars in funds for each and every junk car that was turned in. This money in turn was used by citizens to purchase new cars that were more fuel efficient, and of course the spending helped the auto industry and helped the sputtering economy overall.
This was a popular program for a number of reasons. One reason why people were so quick to jump on board was because of the extra money they would receive. Generally, the amount of cash that was given for these older vehicles was a significant increase on what might have been offered …