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Immigrant children without lawful status should qualify for $3,600 child tax credit: advocacy group

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described the expanded child tax credit as Social Security payments for children that would cost an "enormous amount of money" if made permanent.


By Nicholas Ballasy

Updated: June 22, 2021 - 12:49pm


An advocate with the Children's Defense Fund said immigrant children who lack Social Security numbers should qualify for the expanded child tax credit, worth up to $3,600.

Speaking at an event with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Saira Soto, the deputy executive director of Children's Defense Fund California, lamented that the GOP's 2017 tax reform law required tax filers to include Social Security numbers for their dependent children in order to qualify for the credit.

"Unfortunately, due to the 2017 Tax Cuts and JOBS Act, children must have Social Security numbers in order to receive the federal child tax credit," Soto said Monday at an event for Child Tax Credit Awareness Day. "So Children's Defense Fund California and other coalitions of organizations will continue to work hard to make this temporary expansion permanent."

Biden and the Democrats expanded the child tax credit in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan to allow individuals without an income to claim the tax refund for their dependents on their tax return. Individuals and couples filing jointed who do not pay income taxes are now eligible for the tax refund under the new rules. The IRS has advised the public on its official website that "filing a 2020 tax return, even if you don't have to, could put money in your pocket."

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