By Lily Bohlke, New Hampshire News Connection
MANCHESTER â Parents are now receiving fully refundable monthly 2021 Advance Child Tax Credit payments, and advocates for children and families are urging Congress to make them permanent.
More than a quarter of New Hampshire families reported difficulty paying for usual household expenses in the last week.
Carrie Martin Duran is a Manchester single mom of three, and one of her daughters has Down syndrome.
She said in past years, waiting for a tax refund meant waiting to get repairs for her car or new clothes for her girls. She said distributing the credit as a monthly payment will allow families like hers to budget better.
âWe are here. The checks are in the mail. The money is in the bank accounts. And New Hampshire families need the support,â said Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster at a recent Care Keeps Us Afloat block party in Manchester, hosted by MomsRising, regarding the Child Tax Credit payments.
The event was held on July 15, the day families began receiving the expanded CTC payments recently passed in the American Rescue Plan. The tax credit will provide monthly checks of up to $300 per child for an estimated 130,000 New Hampshire families; itâs available for single parent families earning up to $112,500 annually and for two-parent families earning up to $150,000 annually.
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With another $19.9 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds soon coming to New Hampshire’s early childhood education sector, officials hope the funding will help combat staffing issues that experts say could cause around half of the state’s centers to permanently close by the end of the pandemic.
Early education and child care center officials pinpointed staffing as one of their most pressing ongoing pandemic challenges while speaking with U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., during a virtual roundtable Monday morning.
“Wages, as we know, is a huge issue and something that has been blown wide open because of COVID,” said MaryLou Beaver, director of Waypoint’s The Children s Place and Parent Education Center in Concord. “We really need to be coming together and working on a solution to how we’re going to pay the staff we require degrees from what they deserve to be paid for the quality of work that they do and how we encourage more to come into the field as well. I’m re
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