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Goodbye 'godsend': Expiration of child tax credits hits home
By J. RABY, F. HUSSEIN and J. BOAK
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — For the first time in half a
year, families on Friday are going without a monthly
deposit from the child tax credit — a program that was
intended to be part of President Joe Biden's legacy but
has emerged instead as a flash point over who is worthy
of government support.
Retiree Andy Roberts, from St. Albans, West Virginia, relied
on the checks to help raise his two young grandchildren,
whom he and his wife adopted because the birth parents
are recovering from drug addiction.
The Robertses are now out $550 a month. That money
helped pay for Girl Scouts, ballet and acting lessons and
kids' shoes, which Roberts noted are more expensive than
adult shoes. The tax credit, he said, was a "godsend."
"It'll make you tighten up your belt, if you've got anything
to tighten," Roberts said about losing the payments.
The monthly tax credits were part of Biden's $1.9 trillion
coronavirus relief package — and the president had
proposed extending them for another full year as part of
a separate measure focused on economic and social
programs.
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