Fourth Stimulus Check Update: Anti-Poverty Groups Call for One-Time $2000 Payments in California

A coalition of anti-poverty organizations is urging California lawmakers to send a payment like a fourth stimulus check amid high gas prices and other rising costs of living.

The proposal sponsored by Assemblymember Miguel Santiago calls for the state to send a one-time payment of $2,000 per child to families making up to $30,000 a year.

According to Cal Matters, the proposal is intended to partly make up for the expiration of last year's expanded federal Child Tax Credit payments.

The said expansion gave as much as $3,000 per child and $3,600 per child under six to families making low and middle incomes.

Advocates cited the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities data showing that 1.7 million California kids are at risk of living in poverty with the program's expiration in December.

One of the several pandemic relief programs that expired last year includes California Gov. Gavin Newsom's Golden State Stimulus checks and the enhanced unemployment benefits.

Stimulus Check California

The Golden State stimulus program was created to aid California residents affected by the pandemic and expanded help to immigrants left out of previous federal stimulus check rounds.

In April, the state announced that more payments were on the way, with more than 10,000 tax returns still being processed by the state eligibility, Forbes reported.

When the program was passed, it created a $3.8-billion deal that gave new stimulus checks to California residents with a one-time stimulus check for qualifying individuals.

Eligible taxpayers in the state will receive one-time payments of $600, while qualifying individuals with Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, covering immigrants and undocumented workers, will receive an additional $600.

Meanwhile, taxpayers with dependents will receive an additional $500. California's progressive income tax has contributed an additional $10.3 billion in revenue than projected in January.

Fourth Stimulus Check

The fourth stimulus check will not come from the federal government as the last three stimulus payments did. According to a Ramsey Solutions report, it will depend on your state.

The requirements for eligibility are all different for each state, with certain things in common such as income levels or levels of poverty.

Arizona will be giving fourth stimulus check payments to people going back to work. The state's Back to Work Program offers $2,000 to those who got a job after a period of unemployment.

However, eligible recipients must hold their new job for at least eight weeks to get the benefit.

The State of California is also one of the states to hand out huge amounts of stimulus checks that look similar to the ones the federal government issues.

Californians making $75,000 or less were sent a one-time check of $600 or $1,200 as part of the Golden State Stimulus II.

In New Mexico, $5 million is set to be given to people who did not qualify for the federal stimulus. In addition, New Mexico residents in a lower-income group will get a one-time payment of $750.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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