2020-80: Cross Programs – The 2021 Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Massachusetts Earned Income Credit (EIC), Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Child Care Assistance Mailing

The annual Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Massachusetts Earned Income Credit (EIC), Child Tax Credit (CTC) and childcare assistance informational mailing will be issued in January. It is scheduled to begin in early January 2021.

This mailing will be sent to all active TAFDC clients, certain former TAFDC clients whose cases closed on or after January 1, 2020, and all active SNAP households, excluding SNAP households receiving TAFDC, Bay State CAP or where all household members are receiving SSI.

The Massachusetts Earned Income Credit is 30 percent of the federal credit for the 2020 tax year.

Clients have access to free tax assistance sites located at: https://irs.treasury.gov/freetaxprep/.