If you haven’t filed for a child tax credit, now’s the time to do it. A deadline approaches.
shows, largely due to state and national safety net programs, especially the expansion of federal child tax credits.November 17, prompting advocates in California and a few state lawmakers to sound alarms.
“The concern is that a lot of individuals who were eligible for this credit would not end up going through the administrative burdens of applying and filing taxes in order to gain the credits,” said Hilary Hoynes, a public policy and economics professor and the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the University of California Berkeley.Contrary to many expectations, California’s poverty rate dropped from 16.4% in 2019 to a projected 11.
“California acted swiftly to support Californians hit hardest over the past few years,” said Alex Stack, a spokesperson.At the federal level, experts said the most impactful poverty relief was the expansion of the child tax credit, which paid families $3,600 for each child under 6, and $3,000 for children ages 6 to 17.In San Diego, some who received the extra money from the child tax credit say it definitely made a difference.
Recently a man stuck his hand in the car while they were trying to sleep, she said, and people often fight at the temporary shelter in downtown San Diego.Reyes also worries that her stash of cash for her apartment is slowly being whittled away by rising food costs. “Just getting everyone a burrito can cost almost $50,” she said, referring to her four-person family.Advocates say there are hundreds of thousands of California families with very low incomes, like Angela and her son.
That’s how Rosalee Reyes, 29, said she spent her child tax credit. Reyes, her partner and their 18-month-old baby, Elly Rose, had been living in an apartment but recently moved into a temporary shelter adjacent to San Diego’s Civic Center downtown.
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