Stimulus Check If Back Child Support Owed

If you owe back child support your stimulus payment cannot be garnished to pay that debt.

Stimulus check if back child support owed. The rules for the second stimulus check are different than they were the first time around. The irs said the stimulus payment will be offset garnished basically only for past due child support. If i owe back child support will i get a stimulus check a document from the house committee on ways and means says yes.

Another viewer wrote in asking. This is different from the cares act which specified that if you owed back child support your stimulus. But for the 600 payments that president trump approved sunday night even people who are behind on child support can expect a check.

With the 1 200 payments that went out earlier this year people who owed child support had their stimulus checks seized. Article continues below advertisement 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. It said you will receive a letter in the mail if an offset happens.

If you owed child support your first stimulus money could be taken for arrears the amount you owe. When people started to receive the first stimulus payment many were dismayed to see their payments were garnished for. There one exception to.

In the federal stimulus bill the cares act congress did not exempt the. 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. But there s another big difference for those who owe back child support.