First Stimulus Check And Child Support

If you owed child support your first stimulus money could be taken for arrears the amount you owe.

First stimulus check and child support. This will not be the case for the second. In the first stimulus the coronavirus aid relief and economic security act passed last spring states were allowed to intercept and seize a portion or all of direct payments to parents with child support arrears. With the first stimulus check if you owed child support payments by as much as 150 the government gave states the right to garnish the amount you needed to pay.

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 second stimulus round some important rules are changing for parents who owe child support. With the second check those who owe child support will not have their payment garnished to.

We re trying to get answers from the irs but until then here s what we know about stimulus check money in general for. However people who owe child support may have questions about whether they will still get the checks. The base amount of first round stimulus checks under the cares act was 1 200 i e the amount paid before adding the extra payment for children or applying the phase out rules.