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Advocates Urge Connecticut to Create Refundable Child Tax Credit, Back Revenue Bills to Fund Programs
Summary
Health, immigrant and anti-poverty advocates, and some caregivers testified in favor of a refundable state child tax credit and revenue-raising measures (SB 740, SB 741, SB 742, HB 5986) to reduce child poverty and support social services.
Advocates for children, health equity and immigrant access to services urged the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee on Oct. 27 to establish a refundable child tax credit and approve revenue measures to fund it and related programs.
Rosanna Ferraro, policy director at the Universal Healthcare Foundation of Connecticut, testified in support of HB 5,986 and SB 7 40 and said a refundable permanent child tax credit would "improve the economic security of families with children." Ferraro said such measures should be paired with broader revenue-raising proposals that "tax those most able to afford it."
Emmy (Emmeline) Franklin, a graduate social work student and lifelong Connecticut resident, told the committee that raising a child in Connecticut is expensive and that a refundable child tax credit is associated with measurable improvements…
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