PARENTAL GUIDANCE Child tax credit update 2021: Steps to take if you don’t receive the correct $3,600 payment M.L. Nestel Updated: 6:01, 16 Jul 2021 AS 35 million American families start receiving child tax credit payments worth up to $300 today - millions of families may be waiting a while for their cash. If the aid infusion hasn’t arrived just yet, parents have ways to pinpoint the payment's status and potential time frame. 4 For eligible families waiting to receive their monthly Child Tax Credit payments, there are many reasons for the potential delay and tools to track down the cashCredit: Getty Today, the first batch of Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments - worth roughly $15billion - reached about 35 million of the 60 million qualified families across the country, both the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department confirmed.