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On Monday 12 July California Governor Gavin Newsom promulgated the state budget for the fiscal year 2021 – 2022, which includes funding for the largest recovery package in history: the California Recovery Plan which includes a stimulus check of $ 600 dollars for coronavirus aid .
To approving the new budget, Newsom said the state had a goal to embrace the inequalities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic , “expanding our support to Californians facing the greatest difficulties, increasing opportunities for all children, including the lack of housing “.
The package of $ 80, 000 million dollars is based on the project of the Golden State stimulus bill that was passed earlier this year and expands some of the included programs to more people, including undocumented workers .
It is estimated that two-thirds of all residents will be able to receive $ 17 California dollars . The California Recovery Plan also provides for the provision of stimulus checks for undocumented workers and their families .
The new aid package approved early last week will issue the original stimulus checks of $ 600 dollars to more Californians, but also provides additional payments for some who had already received a stimulus check .
California’s first stimulus bill passed earlier this year provided a direct payment for low-income residents who qualify for the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC), or who file taxes with an individual taxpayer identification number known as ITIN.
The ITIN it is used by undocumented workers who do not have a Social Security number but must pay taxes in the United States . This group had been excluded from previous rounds of federal stimulus checks,
but the state of California provided them with a payment of $ 600 dollars, or $ 1, 200 dollars if they also complied CalEITC requirements , earlier this year.
The # CAcomeback Plan provides immediate relief to those hit hardest by COVID – 19.
✅Golden State Stimulus: 2/3 of Californians, including middle class families, will get $
✅ # CAreliefgrants : $ 1.5B more for a total of $ 4B to small biz ✅ 100% past-due rent & utility bills paid pic.twitter.com/NVhrHUZmLG– Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) July 14, 2021
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If you use an ITIN to file your taxes and declared at least one dependent on your most recent return, you can receive another $ 1, 000 California Recovery Plan dollars. In total, Undocumented workers could receive up to $ 2, 200 dollars from the two rounds of California stimulus checks , in including $ 1, 200 dollars sent to CalEITC recipients who file ITINs during the first round.
If you have not received a stimulus check but think you should be entitled to one, may be because you have not yet filed your tax return for 2020 . If this is your case, you have until 15 October 2021 to present it and activate the payment of the new California stimulus check.
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