Sign-On Letter: Expand the Minnesota Child Tax Credit

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April 24, 2025

Members of the Minnesota Legislature,

We thank you for passing the Nation-Leading Child Tax Credit in 2023, and for developing an advanced payment system in 2024. The Child Tax Credit provides meaningful tax relief to families across our state and is a proven strategy to reduce hardship and improve family well-being. This is a step in the right direction towards making Minnesota the best state in the nation to raise a family.

We urge you to build off the success of the Child Tax Credit. Families are facing increasingly high costs on everyday items like gas and groceries. Strengthening the Child Tax Credit would provide direct aid to our state’s families who are doing the important work of raising the next generation and will reduce the short- and long-term harm of poverty on Minnesota’s children.

We applaud proposals from members in both parties to strengthen the Child Tax Credit. A strong bipartisan bill, H.F. 2339 / S.F. 2508, would expand the phaseout threshold by 20 percent for all filers and likely allow more than 200,000 additional children to qualify. Another bipartisan bill, H.F. 2302, would allow 18-year-olds to qualify for the Child Tax Credit, benefiting nearly 11,000 children in our state. H.F. 2254 / S.F. 2548 would provide an additional $400 in Child Tax Credit to families who have welcomed newborns in the past year and also has bipartisan support. All these proposals support Minnesota children by providing families with meaningful assistance when budgets are tight.  

Expanding the Child Tax Credit would be an important action this session for giving direct relief to families. It should not come at the expense of existing programs or tax credits that provide reliable relief to low-income Minnesotans. We encourage legislators on both sides of the aisle to collaborate on a Child Tax Credit expansion to truly help make Minnesota one of the best states to raise a family.

Thank you for your consideration.

African American Leadership Forum

Big Brothers Big Sisters Twin Cities

Children's Defense Fund-Minnesota

Children's Minnesota

Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)

Germanic-American Institute

Greater Twin Cities United Way

ISAIAH

Joint Religious Legislative Coalition

Legal Services Advocacy Project

Minnesota AFL-CIO

Minnesota Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs

Minnesota Budget Project

Minnesota Catholic Conference

Minnesota Community Action Partnership

Minnesota Family Council

Minnesota Nurses Association

Northside Achievement Zone

Prepare + Prosper

PRISM

RiseUp Partnership

Second Harvest Heartland

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