The monthly child tax credit payments that parents of roughly 2 million Georgia children have received for the past six months are likely coming to an end.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says the neediest families in Georgia, including hundreds of families in Chattooga County and Northwest Georgia, will have to deal with the sudden loss of money they have used to pay for food, housing and child care over the past several months .
Congress has not been to reach an agreement on a $1.8 trillion social spending and climate change bill that would include an extension of the program worth up to $300 a month per child.
Senators will try to resume negotiations next month when they return from holiday break, but it will take major breakthroughs to avoid a lapse in the money that usually shows up in parents’ bank accounts mid-month.
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