Earned Income Tax Credit Access Study

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: The Study is Intended to Increase Take-up of EITC

Treatments: Other: Home visiting; Other: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04901403

HUM00190754

Details and patient eligibility

About

The EITC Access Study an intervention study provided to families in 7 counties in Michigan.The intervention involves appending a concentrated benefits advocacy intervention onto an existing home visiting program. There are 5 treatment counties and 2 control counties that will survey families in the home visiting program to compare the relative benefits of the added benefits advocacy intervention on the outcomes of parent mental health, intimate partner violence, economic hardship, earned income tax credit take-up, and child maltreatment.

Enrollment: 208 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age, has a child in their home

Exclusion criteria

• Does not speak or read English, Spanish, Burmese, or Arabic

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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208 participants in 2 patient groups

Education intervention

Other group

Description:

Parents in the treatment group will receive information about Earned Income Tax Credit, including how to sign up for free. They will also receive help with budgeting and finances from their home visitor.

Treatment:

Other: Home visiting

Other: Education

Control group

Other group

Description:

Control group families will receive home visiting services as usual.

Treatment:

Other: Home visiting