Stimulus Check And Child Support Debt

Although the government prevented debts like overdue student loans and back taxes from being taken from the first round of stimulus checks.

Stimulus check and child support debt. If you owe back child support your stimulus payment cannot be garnished to pay that debt. Although the coronavirus aid relief and economic security cares act temporarily suspends offset of your stimulus check from past due tax debt and student loan debt it will not protect your stimulus check if you owe back due child support payments. The irs has begun direct depositing stimulus payments due to the covid 19 pandemic.

However people who owe child support may have questions about whether they will still get the checks. Checks will go to people who had all or part of their stimulus check diverted to pay their spouse s past due 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. 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.

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. States have deducted child support from stimulus checks. And if you file married jointly it can also put your spouse s stimulus funds at risk.