last year to americans who did not qualify with mostly famished stickley claimed the wrong amount. fox news digital politics editor. good morning to you. let s run down the who, what, where, when, why. what is this program? this program provides a tax credit. for people who don t really pay taxes, they get $1000 per child. this is on top of other incentives for family-friendly tax policies. this was as part of the 2009 obama stimulus and addition to that that they got quite a lot of money. some $57.2013. inspector general report found at least 6 billion of that went to people who didn t deserve it, who hadn t earned it.