Biden Administration Takes Major, Belated Step Toward Improving Child Tax Credit Access
3 years, 3 months ago

Biden Administration Takes Major, Belated Step Toward Improving Child Tax Credit Access

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Biden administration took a major step Wednesday to make the child tax credit accessible to the poorest Americans after months of hearing concerns from legal advocates that the process was too difficult for those who need the benefit most. The Treasury Department unveiled an easy-to-use website to guide Americans who do not traditionally file taxes through the process of accessing the newly boosted child tax credit, a centerpiece of the American Rescue Plan that gives parents up to $3,600 per child this year. Congressional Democrats initially denied there were accessibility issues with the child tax credit but have since put pressure on the IRS to address issues of mobile phone usability and language barriers. The boosted child tax credit is set to expire after the 2021 tax season, but Democrats have vowed to extend the program in their $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package.

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Editorial: Which political party is really ‘anti-kid’? Just look at recent child tax credit history
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: Which political party is really ‘anti-kid’? Just look at recent child tax credit history

LA Times  

President Biden arrives to speak at an event to mark the start of monthly child tax credit relief payments in July 2021. There’s a reason voters are hearing more about the child tax credit during this presidential campaign, with both Republican and Democratic candidates voicing support for its expansion. Vance, who has disingenuously tried to label Democrats “anti-family and anti-kid,” …

Senate rejects legislation that would expand child tax credit and restore business tax breaks
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Senate rejects legislation that would expand child tax credit and restore business tax breaks

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A bill to expand the child tax credit and restore some tax breaks for businesses failed to advance in the Senate on Thursday as Republicans largely opposed the measure, arguing they would be in position to get a better deal next year. He was also looking to counter assertions from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. …

House passes bipartisan tax bill to expand child tax credit
10 months, 3 weeks ago

House passes bipartisan tax bill to expand child tax credit

NPR  

House passes bipartisan tax bill to expand child tax credit Enlarge this image toggle caption Catie Dull/NPR Catie Dull/NPR The House has overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan tax package that pairs a temporary expansion of the child tax credit with business tax breaks and credits to develop more low-income housing. The bill includes $33 billion to expand the widely used child …

Congress Hunts The Rarest Beast: Bipartisan Election-Year Deals
11 months, 1 week ago

Congress Hunts The Rarest Beast: Bipartisan Election-Year Deals

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― Congress is striving to accomplish what rarely gets done in an election year: three separate bipartisan agreements on taxes, spending and immigration policy. He said the House has a duty to "seek bipartisan compromises on tough, tough issues.” Drew Angerer/Getty Images In response to a surge of migrants at the southern border, Republicans have proposed …

Lawmakers announce bipartisan effort to enhance child tax credit, revive tax breaks for businesses
11 months, 1 week ago

Lawmakers announce bipartisan effort to enhance child tax credit, revive tax breaks for businesses

LA Times  

The chairmen of the top tax policy committees in Congress announced a bipartisan agreement Tuesday to enhance the child tax credit and revive a variety of tax breaks for businesses, a combination designed to attract support from lawmakers of both political parties. The bill would incrementally increase the maximum refundable child tax credit to $1,800 for 2023 tax returns, $1,900 …

Lawmakers announce bipartisan effort to enhance child tax credit, revive tax breaks for businesses
11 months, 1 week ago

Lawmakers announce bipartisan effort to enhance child tax credit, revive tax breaks for businesses

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The chairmen of the top tax policy committees in Congress announced a bipartisan agreement Tuesday to enhance the child tax credit and revive a variety of tax breaks for businesses, a combination designed to attract support from lawmakers of both political parties. The bill would incrementally increase the maximum refundable child tax credit to $1,800 for 2023 tax …

Hopes fade for year-end tax deal in congress to aid companies, children
2 years ago

Hopes fade for year-end tax deal in congress to aid companies, children

Live Mint  

Lawmakers are struggling to reach bipartisan agreement on a year-end tax deal, and businesses and antipoverty advocates both look unlikely to get what they want. Republicans and many companies want to reverse, prevent or delay some tax increases on businesses that were scheduled in a GOP-backed 2017 tax law and that began taking effect this year. For families, the child …

Column: The Child Tax Credit is our greatest antipoverty program. Why is Congress letting it wither?
2 years ago

Column: The Child Tax Credit is our greatest antipoverty program. Why is Congress letting it wither?

LA Times  

Sen. Joe Manchin III wants to limit the Child Tax Credit by imposing work requirements, even though his state is one of the most poverty-bound in the nation. Here are some documented truths about the federal Child Tax Credit: — The enhanced credit, enacted in March 2021 as part of the American Rescue Plan, the government’s pandemic relief package, reduced …

Editorial: Congress can help struggling families by reviving the expanded child tax credit
2 years ago

Editorial: Congress can help struggling families by reviving the expanded child tax credit

LA Times  

For a brief, six-month period last year, something life-changing happened for tens of millions of American families: They started receiving automatic monthly payments of as much as $300 per child to use for whatever they needed. But Congress allowed the payments to expire in January, ending an expanded child tax credit that slashed child poverty and could have been a …

Democrats’ big package: What remains in and what’s out?
2 years, 4 months ago

Democrats’ big package: What remains in and what’s out?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — It’s nowhere near the $4 trillion proposal President Joe Biden first launched to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems but the compromise package of inflation-fighting health care, climate change and deficit reduction strategies appears on track toward Senate votes this weekend. What’s in, and out, of the Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” as it stands …

Study: Child poverty rising after tax credit expires
2 years, 10 months ago

Study: Child poverty rising after tax credit expires

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The number of children in America living in poverty jumped dramatically after just one month without the expanded child tax credit payments, according to a new study. As part of Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package last year, the existing child tax credit program was massively reshaped, boosting the amount of the payments, greatly expanding the pool of …

Money on the table: child credit $ available via tax returns
2 years, 10 months ago

Money on the table: child credit $ available via tax returns

Associated Press  

The Biden administration wants families with children to know that there is roughly $193 billion waiting for them — all they need to do is file their taxes to claim it. That is the only way to receive the second half of what you are owed.” The public push is occurring at a critical juncture for both the U.S. economy …

Senators push Biden to fight to preserve the child tax credit
2 years, 10 months ago

Senators push Biden to fight to preserve the child tax credit

LA Times  

Five Democratic senators urged President Biden on Wednesday to continue to fight hard to extend the child tax credit, which he suggested last week might have to be dropped from a revamped version of his sweeping climate and domestic spending package. Michael Bennet of Colorado, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Ron …

Goodbye ‘godsend’: Expiration of child tax credits hits home
2 years, 11 months ago

Goodbye ‘godsend’: Expiration of child tax credits hits home

LA Times  

Hairdresser Chelsea Woody stands outside her car at a grocery store in Charleston, W.Va. For the first time in half a year, families on Friday went without a monthly deposit from the child tax credit — a program that was intended to be part of President Biden’s legacy but has emerged instead as a flash point over who is worthy …

How 2021 Could Have Been Different for Biden
2 years, 11 months ago

How 2021 Could Have Been Different for Biden

Live Mint  

With inflation running at more than 6 percent and President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda in peril, ’tis the season for second-guessing. So I’d like to focus on what may well have been the original sin of the Biden administration and the narrow Democratic majority in Congress: last February’s decision to reject Senate Republicans’ offer of a $600 billion Covid relief …

Biden acknowledges $2T bill stalled, but vows it will pass
3 years ago

Biden acknowledges $2T bill stalled, but vows it will pass

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has all but acknowledged negotiations over his sweeping domestic policy package will likely push into the new year, as he does not yet have the votes in the Senate to lift the roughly $2 trillion bill to passage. “The best Christmas gift Washington could give working families would be putting this bad bill on ice,” …

Biden acknowledges $2T bill stalled, but vows it will pass
3 years ago

Biden acknowledges $2T bill stalled, but vows it will pass

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday all but acknowledged negotiations over his sweeping domestic policy package will likely push into the new year, as he does not yet have the votes in the Senate to lift the roughly $2 trillion bill to passage. Schumer said Democrats “strongly disagree” with the parliamentarian’s decision and vowed to “pursue every means” so …

AP source: Biden, Manchin sharply divided over $2T Dem bill
3 years ago

AP source: Biden, Manchin sharply divided over $2T Dem bill

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin were said to be sharply divided Wednesday over Democrats’ huge social and environment bill, with the holdout senator pushing to erase the measure’s improved child tax credit, as leaders’ hopes of passing the legislation before Christmas appear to be fading away. Many Democrats consider the expanded child tax credit the bill’s …

COVID-expanded child tax credit benefit nears lapse
3 years ago

COVID-expanded child tax credit benefit nears lapse

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — It’s one of the most far-reaching of all the federal aid programs launched during the COVID-19 pandemic — up to $300 per child going directly into the bank accounts of families on the 15th of every month. The swift launch, and potentially quick end, to the bolstered child tax credit highlights the risks of enacting sweeping social policy …

What’s inside Biden’s $2T social and climate measure
3 years, 1 month ago

What’s inside Biden’s $2T social and climate measure

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s roughly $2 trillion plan to boost social and education programs as well as protect against global warming has passed the House, pushing it one step closer to law. FAMILY/CHILD CARE — Eligible workers would receive up to four weeks of paid leave to reimburse them for time taken to care for a new child or …

What’s in, and what’s out, as House nears vote on Biden bill
3 years, 1 month ago

What’s in, and what’s out, as House nears vote on Biden bill

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s now- $1.85 trillion plan to boost social and education programs as well as protect against global warming continues to be fine-tuned by Democrats in Congress with a new goal of completing work before Thanksgiving. TAX BREAKS — An expanded child tax credit would continue for another year. — The expanded Earned Income Tax Credit that …

Child tax credit tussle reflects debate over work incentives
3 years, 2 months ago

Child tax credit tussle reflects debate over work incentives

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — To supporters of the child tax credit, there has always been an “aha moment” — the recognition that as little as a few hundred dollars a month could be life-changing. Bennet and DeLauro are among the Democratic lawmakers who have pushed to make permanent an expanded child tax credit, which President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief package transformed into …

Biden's equity agenda hangs in balance in the Congress spending negotiations
3 years, 2 months ago

Biden's equity agenda hangs in balance in the Congress spending negotiations

NPR  

Biden's equity agenda hangs in balance in the Congress spending negotiations Enlarge this image toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images On his very first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order meant to begin unraveling the systemic barriers that have magnified economic inequality in the United States. Sponsor Message Where the agenda …

Democrats grapple with pared down Build Back Better agenda
3 years, 2 months ago

Democrats grapple with pared down Build Back Better agenda

CNN  

CNN — Forced to pare down their bill to expand the social safety net, Democrats are now having to make tough calls on what they can cut from the proposal, prompting fresh concerns from members who had been working for years on provisions that once had been included in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda and now may be …

What’s in, and what’s out, as Democrats trim Biden bill
3 years, 2 months ago

What’s in, and what’s out, as Democrats trim Biden bill

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — After months of talks, Democrats are edging closer to an agreement on what programs and policies to include in President Joe Biden’s massive plan to expand health and safety net programs and combat global warming. But here’s where the bill stands so far, according to lawmakers and aides: — A child tax credit increase would continue for another …

Democrats may torpedo their big plan: Shielding billionaire wealth, making it tougher to get aid
3 years, 3 months ago

Democrats may torpedo their big plan: Shielding billionaire wealth, making it tougher to get aid

Salon  

Congressional Democrats are negotiating against themselves as they try to complete a spending plan that started at $3.5 trillion but is likely to shrink significantly in the weeks ahead. "It's important to address the fact that billionaire heirs may never pay tax on billions in stock gains," Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said in a statement to Salon. Manchin …

Biden $3.5T plan tests voter appeal of expansive gov’t role
3 years, 3 months ago

Biden $3.5T plan tests voter appeal of expansive gov’t role

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society — a prodigious effort to tax the rich and shift money into projects and programs touching the lives of nearly every American. “We’re doing hard things,” said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., the chairman …

Joe Manchin Doubles Down On Wanting Parents To Work For Child Tax Credit
3 years, 3 months ago

Joe Manchin Doubles Down On Wanting Parents To Work For Child Tax Credit

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Sen. Joe Manchin has doubled down on calling for parents to work for the expanded child tax credit benefit, echoing Republican talking points and throwing a wrench into a central component of his own party’s policy agenda. “Don’t you think, if we’re going to help the children, that the people should make some effort?” Manchin’s comments echo …

How the expanded child tax credit payments work
3 years, 5 months ago

How the expanded child tax credit payments work

Associated Press  

The Biden administration is beginning to distribute expanded child tax credit payments, giving parents on average $423 this month, with payments continuing through the end of the year. President Joe Biden increased the size of the tax credit as part of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, as well as making it fully available to families without any tax obligations. …

Biden says child tax credit a ‘giant step’ to counter poverty
3 years, 5 months ago

Biden says child tax credit a ‘giant step’ to counter poverty

Al Jazeera  

The Child Tax Credit is being likened to a universal basic income for children that helps people meet monthly expenses. Some 35 million American families have started receiving their first monthly payout from the US government in an expanded income-support programme that President Joe Biden said on Thursday could help end child poverty. Under the Child Tax Credit programme that …

Parents Are Already Budgeting For New Child Tax Payments
3 years, 6 months ago

Parents Are Already Budgeting For New Child Tax Payments

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The IRS has notified millions of parents that they will soon receive monthly payments worth as much as $300 per child, and some have already made plans for the money. Rykiel, 33, does the family’s taxes, so she was well aware that the child tax credit benefited her family even before Democrats dramatically expanded it as part …

Democrats Have A Plan To Slash Child Poverty, But It Goes Through A Shoddy Website
3 years, 6 months ago

Democrats Have A Plan To Slash Child Poverty, But It Goes Through A Shoddy Website

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The government’s new online portal for America’s poorest families to receive the child tax credit is proving too difficult to use and could hinder the Biden administration’s efforts to cut child poverty in the United States. Making it mobile friendly — you can’t use it on your phone — we are really concerned about that.” The online …

Biden will start sending monthly child tax credit checks up to $300 to 39 million families
3 years, 7 months ago

Biden will start sending monthly child tax credit checks up to $300 to 39 million families

Daily Mail  

Expanded monthly child tax credits will start going out to 39 million U.S. families starting July 15, the President Joe Biden and the Treasury Department announced Monday. Joe Biden announced Monday his Treasury Department will start sending monthly child tax credits to 39 million families on July 15 'We need to give ordinary families a break – a tax break …

Parents Will Start Getting Monthly Checks From The Government Starting July 15
3 years, 7 months ago

Parents Will Start Getting Monthly Checks From The Government Starting July 15

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Tens of millions of U.S. households will begin receiving monthly checks of up to $300 per child starting July 15, President Joe Biden’s administration announced Monday. The checks are the result of a boosted child tax credit program Democrats included in the American Rescue Plan, the $2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Biden signed into law in March. …

Republicans Tar New Child Benefit As Welfare Without Work
3 years, 7 months ago

Republicans Tar New Child Benefit As Welfare Without Work

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Democrats have changed their approach to social programs, embracing unconditional cash assistance without the kind of “work requirements” they loved in the Bill Clinton years. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader in the House, and Rep. Kevin Brady, the top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, have called it “welfare without work.” “Good jobs and rising …

A closer look at Biden’s $1.8T for families and education
3 years, 7 months ago

A closer look at Biden’s $1.8T for families and education

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration wants to make a $1.8 trillion down payment on the future of children, families and higher education, saying it would produce lasting benefits for the economy. Families earning 1.5 times their state median income would pay a maximum of 7% of their income for all children under age 5. The credits would cover as …

Biden’s Plan: Raise Taxes On The Rich, Spend It On Education
3 years, 7 months ago

Biden’s Plan: Raise Taxes On The Rich, Spend It On Education

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Joe Biden will propose spending $1.8 trillion over the next decade to make massive investments in the nation’s education system, and to expand and protect tax credits aimed at the middle class, administration officials said Tuesday night, adding that he would pay for the ambitious agenda with a number of tax hikes aimed at the wealthiest …

Biden to propose free preschool, as speech details emerge
3 years, 7 months ago

Biden to propose free preschool, as speech details emerge

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will call for free preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, a $200 billion investment to be rolled out as part of his sweeping American Families Plan being unveiled Wednesday in an address to Congress. The president’s speech and the rollout of the American Families Plan come as Biden is marking his first 100 days …

Biden’s ‘Families Plan’ would tax rich to help schools, childcare, community college and more
3 years, 7 months ago

Biden’s ‘Families Plan’ would tax rich to help schools, childcare, community college and more

LA Times  

President Biden is proposing an ambitious $1.8-trillion, 10-year plan to subsidize American families’ education, child care, health insurance and job leave costs — an investment in workers intended to complement his earlier call for infrastructure spending and much more, to rebuild an economy hobbled by pandemic and economic inequality. The latest package would be paid for in part by turning …

American Families Plan: What’s in Biden’s $1.8 trillion care proposal
3 years, 7 months ago

American Families Plan: What’s in Biden’s $1.8 trillion care proposal

CNN  

CNN — A month after he laid out a roughly $2 trillion infrastructure plan aimed at helping the nation recover from the coronavirus pandemic, President Joe Biden is set to unveil an additional $1.8 trillion federal investment in education, child care and paid family leave during his first address to Congress on Wednesday. The proposal would also extend or make …

Democrats Pressure Joe Biden To Go Bigger On Checks For Parents
3 years, 7 months ago

Democrats Pressure Joe Biden To Go Bigger On Checks For Parents

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Democrats in Congress want the federal government to send parents checks every month as a permanent policy — they just have to get President Joe Biden to back the proposal. “We can’t afford to let this moment pass.” Rep. Rosa DeLauro wants the expanded child tax credit provided through monthly payments to parents to become permanent. “We …

Parents Would Keep Getting Monthly Checks Under Joe Biden's 'American Families Plan'
3 years, 7 months ago

Parents Would Keep Getting Monthly Checks Under Joe Biden's 'American Families Plan'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Parents would receive monthly checks, even after this year is over, under President Joe Biden’s forthcoming multitrillion-dollar plan for American families. Economic advisers initially planned on a four-year extension of the child tax credit that would expire in 2025, The Washington Post first reported and HuffPost confirmed with two administration officials. Democrats significantly increased the child tax …

The Most Consequential Policy In The COVID-19 Relief Law Is Still A Big Mystery
3 years, 9 months ago

The Most Consequential Policy In The COVID-19 Relief Law Is Still A Big Mystery

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Democrats have said the expansion of the child tax credit might be the most important part of the American Rescue Plan, the coronavirus relief bill President Joe Biden signed into law last week. That’s a pretty tough question to say yes to,” Sen. Sherrod Brown said of the child tax credit in the new coronavirus relief bill. …

Child tax credit expansion sets up showdown with GOP
3 years, 9 months ago

Child tax credit expansion sets up showdown with GOP

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The massive coronavirus relief plan making its way to President Joe Biden’s desk includes a plan to temporarily raise the child tax credit that could end up permanently changing the way the country deals with child poverty. The American Rescue Plan, expected to receive final approval this week, temporarily raises the child tax credit, now at a maximum …

Democrats Say Relief Programs Could Become This Generation's New Deal
3 years, 9 months ago

Democrats Say Relief Programs Could Become This Generation's New Deal

NPR  

Democrats Say Relief Programs Could Become This Generation's New Deal Enlarge this image toggle caption Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP One of the key aims of President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill is to send money to people who were already at risk of falling behind on bills or slipping into poverty. Democrats say the relief bill set …

Editorial: Biden is making a big push against child poverty. But for how long?
3 years, 10 months ago

Editorial: Biden is making a big push against child poverty. But for how long?

LA Times  

President Biden wants Congress to take an open-the-spigots approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, spending almost $1.9 trillion on a slew of efforts to beat the disease, help desperate households and businesses, fill yawning gaps in state and local budgets and pump up the economy. The COVID relief bill advancing through the House would also provide targeted help to low-income Americans …

Will Biden’s stimulus plan help reduce child poverty in the US?
3 years, 10 months ago

Will Biden’s stimulus plan help reduce child poverty in the US?

Al Jazeera  

As part of the broader $1.9 trillion relief package, Congressional Democrats propose temporarily raising the child tax credit from $2,000 to up to $3,600 per child, which could help lift families out of poverty. Tucked inside United States President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan is a seemingly radical notion that children should not grow up in poverty. “The …

House democrats to introduce $3,000 child benefit legislation
3 years, 10 months ago

House democrats to introduce $3,000 child benefit legislation

Hindustan Times  

Democratic leaders from the US House of Representatives will unveil legislation on Monday that would provide millions of families at least USD 3,000 per child, advancing a key provision in President Joe Biden's USD 1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package. Richard Neal, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, who is leading the crafting of the legislation for the stimulus package, …

Democrats unveil $3,000 child benefit as part of Biden relief package
3 years, 10 months ago

Democrats unveil $3,000 child benefit as part of Biden relief package

CNN  

CNN — House Democratic leaders unveiled legislation Monday that would give millions of families at least $3,000 per child, advancing a key provision in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package. Families can receive the Child Tax Credit payments on a monthly basis, which advocates say would make it easier to pay their obligations compared to getting a lump …

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