By Guest Author, 3/8/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/
HOPE Week of Action Blog – March 7-11, 2022
Authors: Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba member of the HOPE National Advisory Board, and Allison Bovell-Ammon
Last July, a TikTok trend embodied a moment of pure joy when policy change had a real-world impact on families’ lives. The social media outlet was full of parents dancing and taking a huge sigh of relief as the up to $300 monthly payments of the Advance Child Tax Credit (CTC) began to hit bank accounts and mailboxes across the country. The payments were possible due to changes in the CTC that were included in the American Rescue Plan Act. These changes meant that families with little to no income were newly eligible for the credit and that families could receive boosted payments monthly, instead of once a year at tax time.
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