You ARE getting the $8400 child tax credit but some of it is being applied to tax that you owe, so you will not actually receive the full $8400. The child tax credit is a refundable CREDIT---which means it can be used to pay toward tax you owe first and you receive the rest. If you were not getting that credit you would owe a lot more this year You would owe over $3000 to the IRS. So....perhaps you did not have enough tax withheld from your income during the year.
No---nothing is being applied to 2022. And you did not mess up. Even if you had continued to get the advance payments last year, your remaining CTC would be used on your 2021 return to pay your tax owed.
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