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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.