{"id":44542,"date":"2025-11-25T20:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/44542\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:43:07","slug":"shapiro-unveils-working-pennsylvanians-tax-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/44542\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro unveils Working Pennsylvanians Tax Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGov. Josh Shapiro is in Fayette County to discuss a new feature for Pennsylvania taxpayers. The governor will be joined by Fayette County Commissioners Chairman Scott Dunn, Pennsylvania State Senator Patrick Stefano and Fayette County Community Action Agency CEO Kim Hawk. Shapiro is expected to talk about the Working Pennsylvanians Tax Credit which is set to provide $193 million in tax relief for nearly one million working PennsylvaniansThe new credit was outlined in the governor&#8217;s 2025-26 budget. It establishes a new credit equal to 10% of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit  The press conference is set to begin at 3:30 p.m. You can watch it live in the video player above when it begins. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tFAYETTE COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Josh Shapiro is in Fayette County to discuss a new feature for Pennsylvania taxpayers. <\/p>\n<p>The governor will be joined by Fayette County Commissioners Chairman Scott Dunn, Pennsylvania State Senator Patrick Stefano and Fayette County Community Action Agency CEO Kim Hawk. <\/p>\n<p>Shapiro is expected to talk about the Working Pennsylvanians Tax Credit which is set to provide $193 million in tax relief for nearly one million working Pennsylvanians<\/p>\n<p>The new credit was outlined in the governor&#8217;s 2025-26 budget. It establishes a new credit equal to 10% of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit <\/p>\n<p> The press conference is set to begin at 3:30 p.m. You can watch it live in the video player above when it begins. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Josh Shapiro is in Fayette County to discuss a new feature for Pennsylvania taxpayers. The governor will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[222,18552,2476,4531,8633,33,26450,26454,139,4800,28,30,29,26453,26452,12785,26451,3415,22724,22722,18551],"class_list":["post-44542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-budget","tag-email-newsletter","tag-gov-shapiro","tag-governor","tag-inbox","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-josh-shapiro-press-conference","tag-new-feature","tag-news","tag-p-m","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-taxpayer","tag-pennsylvaniansthe-new-credit","tag-press-conference","tag-press-conference-taxes","tag-shapiro","tag-tax-relief","tag-working-pennsylvanians-tax-credit","tag-wtae-app"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}