Hello and

welcome to Money Girls Quick and Dirty Tits for a richer life.

I'm Laura Adams.

I'm Laura Adams. This episode is about the confusion many people have expressed about the making work pay tax credit.

Here's a question I received from Amy in Cincinnati.

Hi Laura, my company's payroll service recently, as they were supposed to,

change the withholding tables to accommodate the slow dribble of stimulus money into my paycheck.

The change put about $15 into my take-home pay per week in accordance with the President's

stimulus bill.

My husband also works and has seen the same thing happen to his paycheck.

If I understand the situation correctly, we would be entitled to $800 total between us.

We don't make enough money to have the stimulus money phase out and we only have one job each.

My question is that at a rate of $30 per week, we would hit $800 in about 26 weeks.

Since the money started to come our way the beginning of April,

should I expect the stimulus money in my paycheck to stop sometime in September.

Put another way, should I expect that my company's payroll service would put the old tables

back in service at that time?

Thanks for your email, Amy.

I think you summed up the concern nicely.

As most of you know, millions of Americans have seen a small increase in their paychecks

due to the Making Work Pay Tax Credit that went into effect earlier this year.

If you're not familiar with this tax benefit, be sure to listen to show 116, where I explain

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