Four states offering direct payments worth up to $1,200 to families before the end of 2022 – can you claim?

WHEN the expanded federal child tax credit expired in January, millions of families and children struggled to make ends meet. The child poverty rate in the US in June 2022 was 18.8%, compared to 12.1% in December 2021, according to Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy. 1 Millions qualify for state child tax credits despite the end of the enhanced federal benefit To help bridge the financial gap exposed by the end of the enhanced federal credit, states have stepped up with child tax credits of their own. At least nine states have instituted new child tax credits… Read Full Article