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    You're not getting child tax credit checks anymore. Here's why

    WASHINGTON — If you raised children during the pandemic, you probably remember something remarkable: getting checks in the mail, every month, from the federal government. The expanded child tax credit provided a few hundred dollars to help pay for your son's braces or your daughter's ballet lessons — or to ease the stress over whether you had enough money to cover the mortgage. Then, one day, ...
    by Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times Jan 03, 2023 6 minutes
    Rosa DeLaura speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on February 8, 2022, in Washington, DC.

    WASHINGTON — If you raised children during the pandemic, you probably remember something remarkable: getting checks in the mail, every month, from the federal government.

    The expanded child tax credit provided a few hundred dollars to help pay for your son's braces or your daughter's ballet lessons — or to ease the stress over whether you had enough money to cover the mortgage. Then, one day, the checks just stopped coming.

    Jessica Hudson used her $500 monthly payments for her 11-year-old son's child care after school while she juggled work and finished a political science degree at San Francisco State. But after the checks stopped, the hours she had devoted to classes were instead spent making stressful calls to coordinate school pick-up or leaving campus early to do it herself.

    Hudson's son lost help with his homework and a support system she didn't have the capacity to offer as a single, working mother of two who was finishing school.

    "It changed how our family functioned," the 37-year-old recalled. "I remember feeling really resentful when it was

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