Stimulus Check Child Support Garnishment

Your second payment will not be offset for any federal or state debts and is protected from.

Stimulus check child support garnishment. 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. As stimulus checks continue rolling out on guam the questions around child support garnishments continue to pop up. There s good news for married people whose coronavirus stimulus payments were wrongly garnished to pay their spouse s back child support.

When the first stimulus checks were garnished to pay past due child support sometimes clerical errors also took stimulus money allocated to a new spouse who was not the child s other parent. About 50 000 people whose payments were garnished will. 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.

Child support can t be garnished from your check to cover overdue payments anymore if you owed child support your first stimulus money could be taken for arrears the amount you owe. But with the second stimulus payment no debts including back child support can be garnished. Andrew perez the deputy attorney general at the child support enforcement division spoke to k57 s patti arroyo on.

If you or your spouse lost out on the first stimulus payment due to child support debt you won t have to worry about your second payment being garnished. If that s what they do third round stimulus payment will be subject to garnishment to pay child support arrears. Right now stimulus checks for qualifying individuals are 600.

This will not be the case for the second.