Stimulus Check Irs Back Child Support
This will not be the case for the second.
Stimulus check irs back child support. Your second payment will not be offset for any federal or state debts and is protected from. He irs has begun direct depositing stimulus payments due to the covid 19 pandemic. Anyone who made less than 75 000 in 2019.
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. However people who owe child support may have questions about whether they will still get the checks. Another viewer wrote in asking.
This is different from the cares act which specified that if you owed back child support your stimulus. If you owed child support your first stimulus money could be taken for arrears the amount you owe. The irs said affected taxpayers can check the status of their payment by using the get my payment tool.
With the second check those who owe child support will not have their payment garnished to. If you owe back child support your stimulus payment cannot be garnished to pay that debt. 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.