Category Archives: U.S. Treasury

WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating four Iranian intelligence operatives who targeted a U.S. citizen in the United States and Iranian dissidents in other countries as part of a wide-ranging campaign to silence critics of the Iranian government. Senior intelligence official Alireza Shahvaroghi Farahani […]

WASHINGTON – Today, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo traveled to Middletown and Hartford, Connecticut to discuss the state’s effective Emergency Rental Assistance program and outreach efforts to enroll families to receive advance Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments under the American Rescue Plan. In Middletown, Deputy Secretary Adeyemo joined Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, U.S. […]

WASHINGTON – Earlier today, Treasury and White House officials hosted a video call with Code for America to announce their collaboration and launch of the civic technology non-profit’s new mobile-friendly and bilingual Child Tax Credit (CTC) sign-up tool – GetCTC.org. The call featured comments from White House and Treasury officials and a demonstration of the new […]

Awards will Spur Economic and Community Development Nationwide WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) announced $5 billion in New Markets Tax Credits today that will spur investment and economic growth in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide. A total of 100 Community Development Entities (CDEs) were […]

Washington – Preliminary data from an annual survey of U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign securities at year-end 2020 were released today and posted on the Treasury web site at (https://home.treasury.gov/data/treasury-international-capital-tic-system/tic-forms-instructions/us-claims-on-foreigners-from-holdings-of-foreign-securities). The final survey report, which will include additional detail as well as possible revisions to the data, will be released on October 29, 2021. The […]

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury along with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Labor, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Social Security Administration released the annual Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports following a closed meeting of the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees.  […]

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced that the Federal Insurance Office (FIO), in response to President Biden’s May 2021 executive order on climate change, is requesting information and soliciting public comment on the insurance sector and climate-related financial risks. FIO’s efforts will focus on three initial climate-related priorities: (1) assessing […]