Occurs in the US economic plan for family support can leave without the help of the poorest Americans, that is, those who most of all need it discovered in the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Now the tax credit for the child, that is, the funds relying on the paid taxes have already received families in which 60 million children are brought up, but money may not receive households with four more millions of children, since they have not previously Figured in tax reporting. The expansion of the payment program for children within the framework of the new plan to restore the American economy gave such families the opportunity to get money mostly for the first time, experts explained.
on the new economic program, funds are now relying to all families where there are children, with the exception of those whose income is very high. For this, people need to fill in a special form or submit information to the tax via a special site if they did not do this. However, researchers emphasized that many this threatens, because they will not be easy to cope with this task, for example due to a language barrier or the lack of necessary technical skills to work with the portal. The total amount of unclaimed payments can reach $ 13 billion.
Monthly payments in the amount of $ 300 per child pay American families from mid-July. This was part of a plan to support the restoration of the economy after the coronavirus crisis, which was adopted in March. It is assumed that the program should reduce child poverty by 40 percent. It should act until the end of the year, but US President Joe Biden wants it to be constant.