{"id":102639,"date":"2021-07-15T15:11:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=102639"},"modified":"2021-07-15T15:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:13:47","slug":"pelosi-celebrates-beginning-of-enhanced-child-tax-credit-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2021\/07\/15\/pelosi-celebrates-beginning-of-enhanced-child-tax-credit-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi celebrates beginning of enhanced Child Tax Credit payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_102640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102640\" style=\"width: 686px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Child-Tax-Credit-Pelosi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-102640 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Child-Tax-Credit-Pelosi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Child-Tax-Credit-Pelosi.jpg 686w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Child-Tax-Credit-Pelosi-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[View video from the event below]<\/figcaption><\/figure>House Speaker <strong>Nancy Pelosi<\/strong> visited parents in Los Angeles County Thursday to celebrate the beginning of increased payments under the enhanced <em>Child Tax Credit<\/em> program included in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; \" id=\"theav-453866921\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4504301096758439\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4504301096758439\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5907184250\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Tens of thousands of children will be lifted out of poverty,&#8221; Pelosi said during the visit to Barrio Action Youth and Family Center in El Segundo.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi said that when she&#8217;s asked about the &#8220;most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: our children, our children, our children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Pelosi said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The program is expected to benefit 1.1 million children in Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Washington, D.C., have been critical of the expanded payments, equating them to a type of welfare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No questions asked and no strings attached,&#8221; Sen. Marco Rubio, R- Florida, wrote in an op-ed earlier this year. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNancyPelosi%2Fvideos%2F551277862902810%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":102640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1496,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}