https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/11/12/child-tax-credit-payments-set-to-go-out-to-tens-of-millions-of-us-families-on-monday/ > The latest round of monthly child tax credit payments is scheduled to be distributed to tens of millions of families on Monday. And it could be the next-to-last one unless Congress acts. > More than $15 billion was sent to families of roughly 61 million children last month, according to the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service. Eligible households have received a total of more than $61 billion since the first monthly payment in July.