Most of the attention to the stimulus-related help provided by the federal government during the economically devastating coronavirus pandemic has rightfully focused on the stimulus checks handed out by Uncle Sam. Millions of Americans got $3,200 in total from three one-off checks. And millions of Americans are also getting as much as a few thousand dollars more this year. That's thanks to the child tax credit payments, which continue on Monday. Meantime, not a lot of people talk about or even seem to know about something called the Emergency Broadband Benefit -- a program born out of the $1.9 trillion stimulus law Congress passed earlier this year.
The recently passed infrastructure bill also increased support for the benefit. So what is it, and why should you care?
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