WASHINGTON — If you raised kids 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 suspenders or your daughter’s ballet lessons – or to ease the stress of whether you had enough money to cover the mortgage. Then one day the checks stopped coming.
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