Tax Credits for MD Families

The Republican Megabill’s Many Harms and Misdirected Priorities, in Charts | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities A nation living its ideals of opportunity and economic justice is one where all people have the resources they need to thrive, where everyone can get the health care they need for their well-being,...

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OBBB’s cuts to food assistance through SNAP will affect all of the 40 million-plus people the program benefits, 16 million of them children.

What it’s all for? To pay, in part, for tax cuts highly skewed to the wealthy.

Credit: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Millions of Children Left Behind: The Truth About the Latest Child Tax Credit Don’t Be Fooled: The One Big Beautiful Bill Fails Our Children

"At first glance, OBBB’s Child Tax Credit might seem like it provides progress. But dig deeper, and the design shows how hollow this promise is. A slight increase in the maximum benefit does not necessarily mean children are truly better off."

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Millions of Children Left Behind: The Truth About the Latest Child Tax Credit Don’t Be Fooled: The One Big Beautiful Bill Fails Our Children

MUST READ: The One Big, Beautiful Bill (OBBB) FAILS our Children

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Congress increased the maximum federal CTC by $200, but eligibility for the CTC got harder.

Under new rules, less families qualify for the full credit because their income isn't high enough. We're grateful Maryland's CTC helps those who need it most. Visit marylandtaxcredits.gov/EarnedIt

"To truly help those with the greatest need, policymakers could make the CDCTC refundable, broaden eligible care expenses, and deliver the benefit when families pay for care, not months later at tax time."

Estimates by the Tax Policy Center confirm that OBBBA's Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit leaves out low-income families. Instead, nearly 80% of the more generous benefit will go to families in the middle and top of the income distribution, who were already eligible under prior law.

TPC Estimates Confirm The Expanded Child Care Credit Continues To Leave Out Low-Income Families On paper, low-income families can offset more of their taxes, but the child care credit remains nonrefundable, so almost no low-income families can actually benefit.

MUST-READ: TPC Estimates Confirm the Expanded Child Care Credit Continues to Leave Out Low-Income Families

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"By targeting tax increases on high-income households while cutting taxes for most households of all racial and ethnic groups, Maryland is demonstrating that progressive tax policy can advance racial equity while generating additional state revenue."

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Fourteen years ago today, in the midst of one of our country’s worst economic crises, Americans saw the last federal minimum wage increase. Since then, we’ve experienced another recession and inflation, housing and consumer prices that continue to rise, far outpacing the minimum wage.

99,000 MDers left $ on the table! Eligible taxpayers get an avg of $1,100 for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)+ $500/kid for the Child Tax Credit (CTC).

We applaud @brookelierman.bsky.social for her work to ensure ALL eligible MDers get these needed credits!

Read more in @marylandmatters.org

This is big! Our state just made it easier for folks to apply for government benefits! This new website will make eliminate the need for people to repeatedly share their personal and financial information in order to access aid. 'Maryland Benefits' is now live at marylandbenefits.org!

The MAGA Republican budget plan will make healthcare + groceries more expensive for us by slashing $ for Medicaid and food assistance to finance more tax breaks for the very rich + big corporations.

This bill, along with Trump's tariffs, will make things even worse for us. This can't happen!

The Senate GOP Reconciliation Bill = HUGE tax breaks for the wealthiest Marylanders, and very little for the rest of us. Check out the chart below ⬇️

Cutting SNAP is bad for families, but it’s bad for Maryland businesses, too - marylandmatters.org/2025/06/24/c...

SNAP Cuts Leave Families Hungry in Maryland: See how 👇👇

Strong families deserve strong support. On International Day of Families, we’re celebrating the resources that help families thrive, like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

💵 The EITC puts real money back into the hands of working families: helping with groceries, rent, child care, and more.

As this piece explains, the CTC expansion the House Ways & Means Cmte proposes would provide no CTC increase to millions of kids in low-income working families, with families in the bottom 20% by income getting just 2% of the new CTC benefits and families in top 20% getting nearly 10 times as much

The House Republican SNAP Cuts Would Take Food From Hungry Families The U.S. House Agriculture Committee’s budget proposal would cut assistance for all SNAP recipients—not “waste, fraud, and abuse.”

House Republicans have proposed the largest SNAP cut in history.

These funding cuts will not root out waste or fraud as they claim, but they will take away food from hungry families in need.

Despite the pro-family talk, the Republican proposal for the Child Tax Credit does NOTHING for 17 million working families and even strips eligibility from another 4.5 million kids. Disgraceful.

New Estimates of the Number of United States Citizen and Legal Permanent Resident Children Who May Lose Eligibility for the Child Tax Credit - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) This fact sheet provides new estimates of the number of American citizen and legal permanent resident children who could lose eligibility for the federal Child Tax Credit if proposals currently consid...

House Republican plan would harm 4.5 million U.S. citizen children by stripping away their access to the Child Tax Credit if either of their parents file taxes w/o an SSN: cmsny.org/publications...

Policymakers Should Expand the Child Tax Credit for the 17 Million Children Currently Left Out of the Full Credit | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Congressional Republicans may soon release a budget resolution that will set the terms of the tax debate, and which is expected to extend the 2017 tax law, including its changes to the Child Tax...

House W&M bill does nothing for the ~17M kids currently left out of the $2,000 max credit b/c their families’ earnings are too low. Temp. raising the max to $2,500 gives them $0 or zilch, but delivers an additional $500-per-kid to higher-income families.
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Today, we celebrate the incredible strength, resilience, and multitasking abilities of all working moms. 👩‍👧‍👦💼 The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) are designed to provide financial relief, making it easier for moms to balance work, family, and everything in between.

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See if you qualify this tax season by
visiting eitc.irs.gov #EITC #CTC

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We 🩷 expanding the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits! Thank you to the MGA – esp. Chairs Guzzone and @jheanellew.bsky.social – for 2 great hearings this week on EITC expansion! #MDGA25 @mdeconomy.bsky.social

Tell your legislators you 💜 tax credits for working MDers, too: bit.ly/taxcreditsmd

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