What's interesting is having the Social Security Administration, rather than the IRS, administer the benefit. This has huge potential upsides in terms of eliminating administrative burden. There are also risks, however, in terms of undocumented families. https://twitter.com/ArthurDelaneyHP/status/1357343704332128264
So since 2017, you can't claim tax credits like CTC if you're undocumented. I think the issue is that it might be easier to roll that back with the IRS than if this gets shifted to SSA.
You get a Social Security number basically right when you're born. The paperwork is done at the hospital. I think you'd basically have 100 percent take up, whereas tax credits are more like 80 percent take up.
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