House COVID Relief Bill Includes Critical Expansions of Child Tax Credit and EITC

CBPP. February 2021. A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) found that the expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) proposed in the House Ways and Means Committee’s COVID-19 relief bill would reduce child poverty by 40% and allow 17 million more low-income adults to access the EITC. https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/house-covid-relief-bill-includes-critical-expansions-of-child-tax-credit-and