Stephanie

Stephanie is a single mother in Tacoma, recently a grandmother, and a survivor of an unsafe relationship. She was a recipient of the expanded Child Tax Credit and was one of the millions to be disappointed in its harsh cut-off date. Stephanie feels grateful that the GRIT payments began right after the Child Tax Credit program ended and she was beginning to look for a second job in order to make ends meet and start chipping away at her debt, but that the GRIT program has allowed her to stay at only one full-time job. "I just work one full time job and that's great," Bartella said. "It allows me time to go to my parents' house on the weekend and help out with them. My daughter just had her first kid and so I'm a grandma and I get time to be with him."