Changes to the Child Tax Credit are embedded in the Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is set to become law on July ...

“We are absolutely committed to continuing to make the case for a child tax credit,” said Lisa Tepper Bates, president and CEO of the United Way of Connecticut, which collected nearly 1,300 supporting ...

The so-called "Big, Beautiful Bill", formally known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, has generated political fireworks.

Congress temporarily boosted the value of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and expanded the maximum credit, for the first time, to ...

Right now, you can claim up to $2,000 per child under 17 on your taxes. Without any action from Congress, that amount drops to just $1,000 after 2025. The Senate’s new bill would permanently raise the ...

The Senate has passed its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act - with an expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) for American families making it into the bill. The Senate approved the bill on July 1 ...

Here are five provisions of the Big Beautiful Bill and how they differ in the House and Senate versions of the legislation ...

More information: Cecile Yama et al, Expiration of the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Energy Insecurity in US Households With Children, 2021–2022, American Journal of Public Health (2025).

Along with the three rounds of pandemic stimulus payments, the expanded tax credits helped cut child poverty in half in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a bill that would give parents up to $6,000 per child in expanded tax credits. It's part of a wider piece of legislation called the Affordable ...

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bipartisan tax package that would have temporarily expanded the child tax credit and restored some business tax benefits. The bill failed to advance in a ...

The American Rescue Plan of 2021 temporarily boosted the child tax credit to $3,000 from $2,000, with $600 extra for children under age 6, and families received up to half via monthly payments.