Stimulus Check Child Support Back Pay

The payment is lower at 600 per eligible person and the income limits to qualify are stricter this time.
Stimulus check child support back pay. For example if you owed 2 000. If you owe back child support your stimulus payment cannot be garnished to pay that debt. 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.
Federal law requires child support agencies to have procedures to collect past due child support from federal tax refunds. 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. This is different from the cares act which specified that if you owed back child support your stimulus.
This will not be the case for the second.