Stimulus Check Back Child Support Owed

When people started to receive the first stimulus payment many were dismayed to see their payments were garnished for.

Stimulus check back child support owed. With the second check those who owe child support will not have their payment garnished to. If you owed child support your first stimulus money could be taken for arrears the amount you owe. But there s another big difference for those who owe back child support.

The federal government is borrowing the money. In the federal stimulus bill the cares act congress did not exempt the. If i owe back child support will i get a stimulus check a document from the house committee on ways and means says.

If you owe child support your stimulus check could be garnished parents who received a stimulus check were given 500 for each child in addition to 1 200 for possible lost wages due to the. The irs said the stimulus payment will be offset garnished basically only for past due child support. 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.

If you owe back child support your stimulus payment cannot be garnished to pay that debt. It said you will receive a letter in the mail if an offset happens. This is different from the cares act which specified that if you owed back child support your stimulus.

Another viewer wrote in asking. 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.