The state budget and the taxes that help finance it have a huge impact on children and families. The budget provides most of the funding for vital government services, such as education, health care, transportation, child welfare and other safety net programs.
For more detailed analysis, visit the Wisconsin Budget Project website.
As tax time is approaching, and the next round of negotiations regarding the payroll tax cuts are gearing up, a bill to deny the Child Tax Credit for those filing with an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN) is also moving in Congress. The bill, titled Refundable Child Tax Credit Eligibility Verification Reform Act, would...
Certification of a Deficit Would Allow State to End or Modify BadgerCare Eligibility for 53,000 AdultsGovernor Walker and many Republican legislators have said repeatedly that the biennial budget bill brought the state budget into balance. I agree with that assessment. However, the Department of Health Services (DHS) sent a letter to...
The biennial budget bill made numerous changes that affect Wisconsin’s low- and moderate-income working families in negative ways. Some of those changes took effect on January 1, 2012, and others that apply to tax year 2011 will first be felt by Wisconsinites as they file their tax returns this year.
As the calendar turned to 2012, many of Wisconsin’s working families began to feel the effects of state budget cuts and policy changes made in the biennial budget bill signed into law last July. According to a new synopsis of delayed budget changes by WCCF, working families are beginning this month to be adversely affected by a number...
Each year WCCF updates a one-page brochure that helps educate people about the major refundable tax credits for low-income families -- the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC), the state Homestead Tax Credit, and the federal child tax credit. Please help us get the flyer into the hands of low-income families who could...
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