Stimulus Check Back Due Child Support

Under the cares act stimulus money could be seized by state and federal agencies to cover past due child support.

Stimulus check back due child support. However your second stimulus check can t be taken if you owe money for child. That s because under the cares act the department of revenue could submit to the irs names of parents who owed past due support of. However people who owe child support may have questions about whether they will still get the checks.

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 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. The irs has begun direct depositing stimulus payments due to the covid 19 pandemic.

The second stimulus paymentdoesn t come with the same rules as the first.