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Pelosi celebrates beginning of enhanced Child Tax Credit payments

by City News Service • July 15, 2021

[View video from the event below]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited parents in Los Angeles County Thursday to celebrate the beginning of increased payments under the enhanced Child Tax Credit program included in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.

The federal government began issuing the payments Thursday, meaning parents will receive payments of $300 for each child under age 6, and $250 for each child aged 6 to 17. The full payments will go to households earning up to $150,000 a year, with lower amounts provided to families with higher incomes.

“Tens of thousands of children will be lifted out of poverty,” Pelosi said during the visit to Barrio Action Youth and Family Center in El Segundo.

Pelosi said that when she’s asked about the “most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: our children, our children, our children.”

“Checks are being mailed or electronic transferred as we speak because of President Biden and the White House and Democratic majorities in the Congress. As I said before, help is here,” Pelosi said.

The Child Tax Credit has been in place since 1997, but it was originally capped at $2,000 per child each year. The American Rescue Plan lifted the cap to $3,600 for children younger than 6, and $3,000 for those aged 6-17. The payments have only been enhanced for one year.

The program is expected to benefit 1.1 million children in Los Angeles County.

Republicans in Washington, D.C., have been critical of the expanded payments, equating them to a type of welfare.

“No questions asked and no strings attached,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R- Florida, wrote in an op-ed earlier this year. “That is not pro-family policy, no matter how much Democrats will claim it to be. If pulling families out of poverty were as simple as handing moms and dads a check, we would have solved poverty a long time ago.”

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Filed Under: Home, Los Angeles County, Politics

2 comments for "Pelosi celebrates beginning of enhanced Child Tax Credit payments"

  1. Dr. Scholl says

    July 17, 2021 at 10:34 am

    They say you wear high heels.

  2. Nancy says

    July 16, 2021 at 5:13 pm

    Oh joy! The kids that will benefit are the ones who’s children will still be paying for the money their parents received, 20-30 years earlier!! Yeah for debt!

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