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The Tax Credit for Workers and Their Families site is a resource for research and information about the EITC, CTC, CDCTC, and the Property Tax Circuit Breaker.

This update provides tips for AFI grantees on the effect of the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, American Opportunity Credit, and the Making Work Pay Credit on eligibility for participating in an AFI-funded IDA project and depositing the credits as IDA savings.

This page explains why claiming the EITC and CTC does not generally reduce eligibility for government benefits. 

This report describes the barriers to access, efforts across the country to reduce these barriers, and the preliminary results of those efforts. The author concludes with strategies for improving awareness and outreach, and state benefits policies.

The tax codes of the federal government and over half the states have some type of child and dependent care (CADC) tax provision that reduces the amount of tax owed by families and, in some instances, increases their tax refunds. This suite of Making Care Less Taxing materials from the National Women's Law Center provides a comprehensive overview of CADC tax provisions.

Recognizing how many eligible workers do not take advantage of the EITC, 14 VITA sites in Native American communities undertook a survey with more than 1800 American Indian/Alaskan Natives/Native Hawaiians to better understand how the EITC could benefit their communities.

After thirty years the EITC is a successful component of anti-poverty strategies in the U.S. This paper describes the history and structure of the EITC on the federal and local level, summarizes key research including the impact on important socioeconomic measures, and outlines proposals for improving the effectiveness of the EITC into the 21st century.

The author describes ways the federal government uses the EITC to invest in local economies, the benefit of the influx of resources, and what more can be done to increase the benefit of credit policies.

Despite the success of the EITC, many eligible workers do not claim the tax credit. This paper provides a history of the EITC, describes its limitations and challenges, and summarizes a number of states' efforts to increase awareness of, and participation in, the EITC.

This blog is dedicated to providing up-to-date information on tax credit legislative activity, particularly introduced bills and signed law that relate to tax credit programs for families.