Child Support Recipient Stimulus Check
The irs will send stimulus check payments to about 50 000 people whose portion of their payment was diverted to pay their spouse s past due child support.
Child support recipient stimulus check. With the 1 200 payments that went out earlier this year people who owed child support had their stimulus checks seized. But for the 600 payments that president trump approved sunday night even people who are behind on child support can expect a check. 600 for each dependent child.
Aside from the smaller stimulus checks for adults the other major change under the bill passed by congress is the amount provided for dependent children. The first set of direct payments from the covid 19 economic relief plan last spring allowed for garnishment of stimulus checks to pay back child support. In the first stimulus bill some parents received duplicate payments for the same dependent child.
Some parents can double dip for an extra 600. This is different from the cares act which specified that if you owed back child support your stimulus. Second stimulus checks and child support.
With the second stimulus check each eligible adult will get up to 600 decreasing as income raises. Adults and qualifying children are both eligible for up to 600 each with the second payment. A stimulus check offset against a florida child support delinquency will be sent to the recipient parent to whom it is owed or to reimburse the government for public benefits the parent received in place of the child support.
Accordingly the treasury department will withhold stimulus checks from those child support debtors.