Stimulus Check Child Support Payment Plan

Stimulus checks for dependents were rife with issues with some parents not receiving any payment and other parents both getting 500 for the same child.

Stimulus check child support payment plan. In the second stimulus round some important rules are changing for parents who owe child support. As part of the package biden proposes sending 1 400 stimulus checks which combined with the 600 payments currently going out would add up to 2 000 in direct aid for qualifying individuals and. 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.

You can check the status of your payment with get my payment. The irs will send stimulus check payments to about 50 000 people whose portion of their payment was diverted to pay their spouse s past due child support. The irs has issued approximately 160 million payments from the first round of economic impact payments totaling over 270 billion.

The total stimulus payment may be intercepted when the child support amount owed is greater than the stimulus payment. The covid related tax relief act of 2020 that was signed on december 27 2020 that is an extension of the cares act does not require the second stimulus payment to be intercepted to pay child support arrears. President joe biden agrees his 1 9 trillion stimulus package proposal includes a 1 400 third stimulus check which would deliver a combined 2 000 maximum per person when you add the second.

If you have questions about the second economic impact payment also known as stimulus payments see the related questions and answers. Stimulus checks biden s plan also increases the second round of 600 economic impact payments to 2 000 for taxpayers and their dependents. That means eligible taxpayers can expect to receive up.

The payments will be issued in early to.