For a number of years, the federal government has used a tax credit to encourage lower-income workers to put money aside for retirement.
On paper, the idea made sense. In practice, many of the people the program was meant to help owed little or no federal income tax, which limited the value of a nonrefundable credit for anyone without a tax bill to offset.
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