The IRS is paying families up to $300 per child per month — support that is specifically designed to help low-income households. Any family with children can benefit and the IRS is making it easy to enroll.

However, there are still as many as 6,000 households in Fairfield County at risk of missing out on this benefit.

Now, we’re in a race against time to enroll as many families as possible ahead of the November 15 registration deadline.

Fairfield County’s Community Foundation has joined forces with the IRS-certified nonprofit SimplifyCT/GetCTC to help families get into this new program.

Signing up for the benefit is easy. Go to getctc.org/FCCF to sign up for this crucial benefit (in either English or Spanish).

There is also this toolkit to help you spread the word to others. It provides you with flyers, email messages, and social media posts that you can share in your network. Messages are available in both English and Spanish.

If you’d like more information to help spread the word, please email Patrick Gentile at patg@simplifyct.org.