Tax Relief for Working Parents

The Urban Institute examines expanding EITC to noncustodial parents in a new paper. Recently enacted in New York and Washington, D.C. this new form of EITC extends the credit to low-income noncustodial parents who work and pay their full child support. The paper describes

the rationale for this policy and provides national estimates of the benefits and costs of an NCP EITC under three alternative policy scenarios. It also discusses several key design and implementation issues.

Policies to expand access to EITC.