Stimulus Check Held For Back Child Support

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.

Stimulus check held for back child support. With the 1 200 payments that went out earlier this year people who owed child support had their stimulus checks seized. The federal government will garnish your stimulus check if you owe back child support. The irs said the stimulus payment will be offset garnished basically only for past due child support.

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However your second stimulus check can t be taken if you owe money for child. Under the cares act stimulus money could be seized by state and federal agencies to cover past due child support. One thing that s been clear.

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. But for the 600 payments that president trump approved sunday night even people who are behind on child support can expect a check. This will not be the case for the second.

However people who owe child support may have questions about whether they will still get the checks. Dear moneyist stimulus checks should not be taken for back child support.