https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/07/12/new-child-tax-credit-payments-start-this-week-heres-how-the-irs-is-trying-to-make-sure-the-neediest-families-dont-miss-out/

Melinda Williams, a married mother of five, didn’t think her family qualified for the child tax credit since they don’t earn enough to file income tax returns. So the New York City resident didn’t pay much attention to Congress’ historic increase of the benefit earlier this year.

But then her pastor, Bishop Mitchell Taylor of Center of Hope International, last week told her that the expanded credit could be worth $3,000 for each of her kids for 2021. Williams made an appointment at Urban Upbound, a free tax prep center Taylor founded, for the next day and filed a 2020 return, which will allow the Queens family to receive not only the monthly child tax credit payments but several stimulus payments they missed out on.