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But the ARP went beyond just the short-term crisis. Most notably, the ARP permanently increased both the CTC and the EITC for people on the island. Puerto Rican families were made permanently eligible for normal CTC benefits (though not advanced monthly payments), a change that will significantly boost the incomes of all families with children. And while residents of Puerto Rico are not yet eligible for federal EITC benefits, the ARP set aside $600 million per year to subsidize the island’s local EITC. Those changes marked a positive, humane break from how the federal government traditionally treated Puerto Rico. But it turns out that was just the beginning of change: The pending Build Back Better (BBB) Act sews up the two most gaping holes in the island’s federal safety net, thereby tremendously improving the lives of impoverished residents.