Puerto Rico resident commissioner in Washington Jenniffer Gonzalez offered details of the aid package approved by the federal Senate, and which is now happening in the House, where $ 1,400 per individual is included.
In an interview with WKAQ, González explained that unlike the last aid, the $ 600 and $ 1,200, in these qualify the dependent adults. “In previous coronavirus stimuli, family faces, the $ 600 and $ 1,200 was just for you and your dependent under the age of 17, this time qualifying large dependents, if you have your mother, qualifies “We have to wait for the IRS and the Department of the Treasury guidelines to be issued but they are contained,” he said.
On the bill, the official indicated “there are two major amendments, which is the elimination of the federal minimum wage increase and the reduction from $ 400 to $ 300 per weekly unemployment. These are the only two major amendments to the bill. , so the House has two options, one, or pass the measure as it came from the Senate, which is what the Speaker of the House has said will happen, and from that happen this week the President would be signing the same this same weekend, which would allow the Department of the Treasury two or three weeks for what the rules, the guidelines issue. ”
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In addition to the $ 1,400 aid and funds allocated to states and territories to manage the situation of the coronavirus COVID-19, Gonzalez spoke about the credits for minors, which the project makes possible that now the tutors in charge of these will be able to request in his form the same if you have one or two under his charge.
“Detail credit on the island only qualifies if one has three or more children and returns it on the payroll, this time it will now be able to qualify the first and second child in each household and is increased by two thousand dollars to three thousand dollars detail, and if he is under six years to $ 3,600 detail.He surrenders to the normal payroll, and at the end of the year he must obviously return it also to the IRS and receive this refund. impacting 355 families in Puerto Rico, and could be generating nearly a trillion dollars a year in people’s pockets for the next five years, ”he added.