Stimulus Payment Child Support

Here are some important facts regarding your child support and the federal stimulus payment.

Stimulus payment child support. Government to be released. While the cares act provided a 1 200 direct payment to most individual adults and 500 per dependent child the new stimulus package provides for a flat 600 payment for every eligible adult whose. In the first stimulus payments in april 2020 which directed 1 200 to eligible adults as well as 500 per child it typically took two weeks to several months for payments to reach people.

2nd round of stimulus money covid relief bill in late december 2020 a 2nd round of funds was approved by the u s. The 900 billion stimulus bill from late december changed some of the rules for the second stimulus check including for people who owe and receive child support. Unlike in the first round of.

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. If you owe back child support your stimulus payment cannot be garnished to pay that debt. Some parents can get 600 each per dependent.

These funds will not be subject to child support garnishment. For both the first and second stimulus bills some parents received duplicate payments for the same. This is different from the cares act which specified that if you owed back child support your stimulus.

That s because under the cares act the department of revenue could submit to the irs names of parents who owed past due support of.