“We are absolutely committed to continuing to make the case for a child tax credit,” said Lisa Tepper Bates, president and CEO of the United Way of Connecticut, which collected nearly 1,300 supporting ...

A Trump-backed spending bill that passed the US Senate Tuesday would increase the maximum amount families can receive for a ...

Congress temporarily boosted the value of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and expanded the maximum credit, for the first time, to ...

Right now, you can claim up to $2,000 per child under 17 on your taxes. Without any action from Congress, that amount drops ...

The Senate has passed its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act - with an expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) for American ...

Here are five provisions of the Big Beautiful Bill and how they differ in the House and Senate versions of the legislation ...

Child poverty spiked by 41 percent in January after Biden benefit program expired, study finds The White House was unable to extend an expansion in the Child Tax Credit amid pushback from Sen. Joe ...

More information: Cecile Yama et al, Expiration of the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Energy Insecurity in US Households With Children, 2021–2022, American Journal of Public Health (2025).

Along with the three rounds of pandemic stimulus payments, the expanded tax credits helped cut child poverty in half in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bipartisan tax package that would have temporarily expanded the child tax credit and restored some business tax benefits. The bill failed to advance in a ...

The American Rescue Plan of 2021 temporarily boosted the child tax credit to $3,000 from $2,000, with $600 extra for children under age 6, and families received up to half via monthly payments.