- $550 checks will be sent to individuals who qualified for the Earned Income Tax Credit in 2022
- The checks will be sent on a rolling basis and distribution may take up to six weeks
- Qualifying individuals will automatically be sent the checks and will not need to take additional steps to receive it
This week the state began sending tax credit refund checks to roughly 700,000 lower-income Michigan residents. The checks, averaging about $550, are for those who qualified for the Earned Income Tax Credit in 2022.
The checks come after a state law was passed last March that expanded Michigan’s Earned Income Tax Credit from 6% to 30% of the federal tax credit.
Who will get a check?
Recipients will be taxpayers who qualified for the Earned Income Tax Credit in 2022, designed to benefit residents who have a job but don’t make much money. The size of the credit depends on household income and dependent children.
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For the 2022 tax year, a married couple with three kids qualified if they earned less than $59,187 combined. Individuals without children could qualify if they earned less than $16,480.
How much money might I get?
The maximum Michigan EITC is 30% of the federal credit and is adjusted yearly based on inflation.
Individuals who were eligible for the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit and claimed it when they filed for 2022 already received a 6% credit. The checks mailed this week will supplement the remaining 24 percent of the tax credit.
The average check is expected to be $550.
When should I expect to receive my check?
The Michigan Department of Treasury will send the checks on a rolling basis over the next five-to-six weeks by mail, beginning this week.
Do I need to do anything?
The paper checks will automatically be sent to eligible taxpayers, without having to take additional steps. The Michigan Department of Treasury will confirm who is eligible to receive a check based on workers who submitted their 2022 tax return.
Individuals who have moved can update their address to ensure that the check is sent to the right place.
When will the state of michigan help the working family that struggling to buy food or get car repairs or buy household needs . Or that have children in school , daycare , graduation, rent , light, gas , medical and auto , renter insurance, taxes and so much more , we pay taxes as well
Our govern doing a good job but you are leaving out an important class of people along the way . Everyone get help but us I believe that the help is needed for them and don’t won’t it to stop but it others out here also that need a break as well . Working people that talk to me regularly in need of help . So let become a community that helping all .
I am a senior who happen to 79 black male has lost everything who couldn’t afford to keep my utilities on and right now I’m homeless, but with the money it will keep mef from drowning
The government isn’t here to pay your way in life. It’s supposed to be a helping hand when needed. Not your lifelong money hole.
When we will the single no dependents taxpayer get a break?
Agreed!
When will the poor seniors get any help ?
Seniors on limited pensions that worked all their lives and paid their taxes/dues deserve to live comfortably until the end of their days instead of struggling to put food on the table and pay for their meds. without constantly worrying.
Exactly, we treat having kids like it’s a disease, having kids is a choice, single tax payers should be given all of the same help, resources, healthcare, bridge cards.etc
I am a senior, living trying to do best that I can do since my husband passed away about 3 years ago, I was looking forward to receiving help from the governor everyone around me is getting help.
Whst about senior citizens who are low income and struggling,
I guess have lots of babies and you will catch a break that way haha apparently that’s what half of these people do….. get lots of money in food stamps, medicaid, And also a good amount on taxes coming back to them every year… so I guess that’s how you catch a break these days 😉
What about those of us who are disabled and unable to work, and have not filed any taxes. We still are functioning at 150% BELOW poverty!
What abt the senior citizen who pave the way we are always the ones who end up with nothing and that’s not fair to us when will be recognize in this society we paid our dues. Karen Putnam
When will the Governor address the rising rates of DTE for households who earn too much to receive state assistance but not enough for anything else? MPSC NEVER sides with the consumer.
As a Michigander all my life, I can actually say I’m embarrassed to admit this..just know it has not been this bad until the last 5-6 years. I’ve been on SSDI the last 12 yrs and we always seem to get the short end of the stick…was much surprised we were included in all the stimulus funds, then over time the 8.2% Cola increase, look how long this actually took…then to low ball us January 2024 with a lousy 3.2%, really? Just how is that going to help us along the way? Buy a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk? Just these two items that’s your 3.2%. Many counties are classified as middle/high class due to maybe 30-40% and the rest are under poverty or just barely making it, none takes a good look at these numbers and get nothing or not any type of financial assistance…too many families are losing everything, can’t feed their families or afford gas to make it to work…there were many states that provided gas cards to help, it’s something. Funding spent on other countries, funds on this boarder, funding immigrants to live and have housing etc…not discriminating by far, just a look at how many of us could well use the funding to better support the Disabled, low income families…hate to be the one to say, many has revoked there voting card’s because the American people are fed up with the lies, promises and not one promise kept helping those because in a better financial status.
Well said
The three-point 2% is a calculation based on inflation nobody decides that number. It is what it is based on inflation when inflation was super high then cost of living with super high just be damn grateful that you’re not me I lost money because of the cost of living increase it Rose me by like $3 above the cutoff limit for paying Medicare costs! So I gained I gained $70 and lost about 400 because of copays and the cost of Medicare isn’t that fucking brilliant. That poverty line is supposed to track and be in sync with this but someone dropped the ball. So I’ll probably lose my house now because I never had extra even $200 I was at zero at the end of every month that’s no way to live after paying into a system for that many years. I worked almost all my life before I got sick so I paid a damn pretty penny into the system and I’m living right at the poverty level how is that fair? Disability insurance should be about twice as much as it is now just so we could break even I’ve lived off of my life savings it’s gone something needs to change in this world
that is what happens when the GOP in the STATE senate of MI continually VOTE against these things. Give Whitmer and the DEMS all the support they need to get things to you. Prices for food and other items is up because Trump removed all the stock buy back protections and the CEOs bought up all the stock and can now set prices as they want to.
I totally agree!
Michigan governor should be ashamed of themselves, it isn’t just family with kids who are struggling, I can’t even afford to buy groceries but we don’t get any extra help because we don’t have kids , that shouldn’t matter we still have rent and bills and groceries and we should be treated fairly and treated the same
The government doesn’t owe anything to anyone. Some of act like the government should support just cause you was born. In the olden days you worked 3 jobs if you had too to make a living without complaining. So many now wahhhh wahh wahh. Move to China if you think you got it bad here.
Wow do u not have any sympathy for elderly people. WTF. U r a disgrace some of our older citizens can’t work due to age or health issues deserve to be treated like second class citizens. Because I’m here to tell ya that if it were not for some of our elders we would not be were we r at today. We can learn so much from our seniors because they have live through so much stuff that we can never imagine the things that they have been through.
I knew I was not alone. My husband and I both worked for one of the American Dreams, a Home. As a young widow, mis-informed about Social Security, even while returning to work, I am struggling to pay medical, and food (could not qualify for EIC, due to my age). Most pressing is keeping the American Dream, My Home. Where is the help? I had one child in life and struggled to maintain. Nothing like the help given these days. But I still pay taxes in some way or form. HELP!
that is what happens when the GOP in the STATE senate of MI continually VOTE against these things. Give Whitmer and the DEMS all the support they need to get things to you. Prices for food and other items is up because Trump removed all the stock buy back protections and the CEOs bought up all the stock and can now set prices as they want to.
What we need is term limits for all elected officials. To include federal and state
Corporation are price gouging and selling US oil
To other country for a profit and we pay the price