Second Stimulus Check And Child Support Update
Congress continues to debate the latest coronavirus relief plan with the heals act and heroes act on the table.
Second stimulus check and child support update. In the second stimulus round some important rules are changing for parents who owe child support. So while those who owe child support lost their first payments the second stimulus payment won t be taken to repay overdue debts. However people who owe child support may have questions about whether they will still get the checks.
With the second check those who owe child support will not have their payment garnished to. As it currently stands the heals act may allow the irs to withhold some or all of. Second stimulus check specifically addresses overdue child support unlike the cares act which made it legal for states to garnish the first stimulus check for people who owed more than 150 in.
The irs has begun direct depositing stimulus payments due to the covid 19 pandemic. Your second stimulus check is not subject to reduction or offset to pay back taxes child support or other debts owed to the federal or a state government. However if you owed child support the irs is authorized to use your first round stimulus check money to pay the money owed.
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. If you haven t received your second stimulus payment yet you can. If the irs does not have that information it can use the 2018 tax year information as an.
The child didn t provide over half of their own support for 2019. Article continues below advertisement 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 addition second round stimulus checks aren t subject to garnishment by creditors or debt collectors.
If you owed child support your first stimulus money could be taken for arrears the amount you owe.