Families are struggling again after just 2 months without child tax credit payments investinyou (In partnership with acorns.)
"These past two months have been a sort of perfect storm of factors coming together to make life even more difficult," said Allison Johnson, a campaign director with ParentsTogether Action.
In addition to still dealing with the pandemic, which has upended work and school for families, parents are also being hit with higher prices for everyday items due to the. That's added extra pressure to their budgets at the same time they're seeing less money coming in each month. "All of these other factors have combined to make it just extremely hard for families to get by right now," said Johnson. About 80% of the families surveyed had annual income of less than $100,000.The child tax credit was enhanced through the Biden administration's American Rescue Plan, signed into law in March 2021. It boosted the existing child tax credit to $3,000 from $2,000 with a $600 bonus for kids under the age of 6 for the 2021 tax year.
In the earliest months of receiving checks, families used the money for essential such as food, clothes and rent. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Household Pulse survey shows thatOther data confirmed these findings. In December, a survey from SaverLife, a non-profit that encourages low-income Americans to save, showed that 74% of people receiving the credit used it for everyday expenses.
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