Here's how the Biden administration is trying to reach families eligible for monthly Child Tax Credit payments

The Biden administration is ramping up efforts to make sure taxpayers eligible for monthly child tax credit checks will get them when the first payments start next month. More than 36 million eligible families are expected to start seeing the payments passed under the American Rescue Plan July 15.

Children under the age of six are set to receive payments of $300 a month through the end of the year while children ages six to 17 will receive payments of $250 a month. On Friday, the Biden administration announced it will work with officials, faith-based organizations and groups that work with children to help make sure low-income families who would otherwise fall through the cracks because they are not part of the tax system are able to receive the credit. "We want to make sure that every family with children who qualifies for this tax credit receives it because of course they deserve it," said Vice President Kamala Harris, speaking about the benefit Friday while visiting a child care center. "And because that will help us lift half of those children… living in poverty, out of poverty."