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Article: Rebate for low-income families may be delayed
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- June 13, 2003
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WASHINGTON -- The House voted Thursday to extend $1,000 child tax
credits through the remainder of the decade, leaving uncertainty over
whether low-income families will cash in on rebates going out to
other households this summer.
The 224-201 vote on the package of $82 billion in new tax cuts
extends the $1,000 child tax credit to 2010 and makes the benefit
available to more low-income families and higher-income married
couples. It also sets up a confrontation with the Senate, which a
week ago passed a much smaller bill to allow 6.5 million low-wage
households to qualify for the checks of up to $400 per child that
will be mailed to middle-income parents.
Democrats said House Republicans ...