Irs Stimulus Owe Child Support
The irs will not withhold stimulus payments from individuals who owe child support.
Irs stimulus owe child support. 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. For these individuals the irs offset their stimulus check for past due child support owed by their spouse. However people who owe child support may have questions about whether they will still get the checks.
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. This will not be the case for the second set of stimulus checks however. This offset occurred even for those who filed form 8379 injured spouse allocation with.
The irs has begun direct depositing stimulus payments due to the covid 19 pandemic. In the second stimulus round some important rules are changing for parents who owe child support.