Monthly child tax credit payments have stopped. But families who file their tax returns can still get the rest of the credit, officials say.
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Katrena Ross started receiving $300 a month last July as part of the expanded monthly child tax credit payments. The Michigan mother of three, including a son with autism, used the money to pay for gas to drive her children to school and to feed them healthier food.
"To a lot of people it doesn't seem like a lot, but when you're already living paycheck to the week before paycheck, $300 – it helps," Ross said. But in January, those payments stopped.
"I'm back to looking at the bills and seeing what I can push around to be able to get groceries for the house and making sure that all of the bills are paid still and on time so nothing gets turned off."
President Joe Biden said France was America's "first friend" at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later as he was honored with a state visit Saturday by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at showing off their partnership on global security issues and easing past trade tensions.
The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau last week launched an inquiry into what the agency is calling "junk fees in mortgage closing costs." These additional fees, involving home appraisal, title insurance and other services, have spiked in recent years and can add thousands of dollars to the final cost of buying a home.
Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.