Stimulus Check If Child Support Owed

In the second stimulus round some important rules are changing for parents who owe child support.

Stimulus check if child support owed. 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. He irs has begun direct depositing stimulus payments due to the covid 19 pandemic. Anyone who made less than 75 000 in 2019.

This will not be the case for the second. With the 1 200 payments that went out earlier this year people who owed child support had their stimulus checks seized. But for the 600 payments that president trump approved sunday night even people who are behind on child support can expect a check.

If i owe back child support will i get a stimulus check a document from the house committee on ways and means says yes. With the first stimulus check if you owed child support payments by as much as 150 the government gave states the right to garnish the amount you needed to pay. Another viewer wrote in asking.

The rules for the second stimulus check are different than they were the first time around. If you owe back child support your stimulus payment cannot be garnished to pay that debt. 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.

However people who owe child support may have questions about whether they will still get the checks. For example if you owed 2 000.