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Sign Letter so Millions More Children Get the Child Tax Credit!

(This email was authored by the Coalition on Human Needs )

Did you know that a parent working 30 hrs. a week for 50 weeks a year at

$7.25 earns too little to qualify for the Child Tax Credit?

Outraged?

If so, please have your organization sign a letter to make the Child Tax

Credit reach many more working families. Or sign a letter yourself.

Deadline: Monday, July 7 at 5:00 p.m., Eeastern time

Sign your organization on a letter

Please sign only if you are authorized to do so by your organization!

Sign your own letter to Congress

More details:

Middle- and many upper-income families receive a $1,000 Child Tax Credit

(CTC) for each child age 17 and under. Some poor working families who do

not owe federal income taxes benefit from the CTC, but current law requires

they have minimum earnings of $12,050 to receive at least a partial credit.

If their earnings are lower they are too poor to qualify! Further, every

year the minimum is adjusted upward for inflation. It started at $10,000 in

2001; the annual increases have excluded low-wage-earners every year.

Congress is working to extend certain tax benefits to corporations and

individuals. The House has already passed a tax bill (H.R. 6049) that

includes a big improvement for low-income families: it lowers the minimum

for receiving CTC to $8,500 and removes the inflation adjustment. Families

of over 13 million children would become newly eligible to receive the

credit or would receive larger credit under the House bill. The Senate has

not acted, but Finance Committee Max Baucus (D-MT) has introduced a bill

with a $10,000 minimum. The families of more than 1.5 million children

would either receive no CTC or a smaller refund at the higher $10,000

level. Congress must not delay in enacting tax legislation that includes

the $8,500 refundable CTC threshold and ends annual inflation increases.

Please forward this email to others in your network.

Children and their families should not be denied the Child Tax Credit

because they don't earn enough.

Thank you!

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