Alice Echo News Journal
Congressman Filemon Vela is urging hardworking families to file their taxes as soon as possible to ensure they receive their advance monthly Child Tax Credit payments.
As part of the American Rescue Plan Congressman Vela helped pass, families could get monthly payments of up to $300 per child beginning as soon as July. The best way to ensure eligible families receive their payments is to file a 2020 tax return – even if they don’t have earnings to report or don’t normally file – because the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) needs information from tax returns in order to calculate and issue advance monthly payments.