{"id":3849,"date":"2021-07-15T07:36:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T12:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2021-07-15T07:36:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T12:36:45","slug":"advance-child-tax-credit-payments-start-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/advance-child-tax-credit-payments-start-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Advance Child Tax Credit Payments Start Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The advances going out today represent a prepayment of the tax refunds parents expect to receive at filing time next year.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you received a tax refund by direct deposit earlier this year, check your bank account to see if you have a direct deposit payment of $300 for children age 6 and under, or $250 for children ages 7 through 17. If your bank account has changed since filing your last tax return, the bank should return or reject the direct deposit and the IRS will mail a paper check to you. We do not know how long this process will take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you claimed a child on your 2020 tax return but will not be claiming that child on your 2021 tax filing, you should go online to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/credits-deductions\/child-tax-credit-update-portal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Child Tax Credit Update Portal<\/a> and unenroll from receiving the advance payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advances going out today represent a prepayment of the tax refunds parents expect to receive at filing time next year. If you received a tax refund by direct deposit earlier this year, check your bank account to see if you have a direct deposit payment of $300 for children age 6 and under, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-07-15T12:36:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"949d88db-737f-4f7d-acd7-0804344a53df","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-07-15T12:36:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AlJ2I23N_T32s1wgENEpT3w","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tax"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}