Stimulus Check Update For Child Support

With the 1 200 payments that went out earlier this year people who owed child support had their stimulus checks seized.

Stimulus check update for child support. But for the 600 payments that president trump approved sunday night even people who are behind on child support can expect a check. In the second stimulus round some important rules are changing for parents who owe child support. There s good news for married people whose coronavirus stimulus payments were wrongly garnished to pay their spouse s back child support.

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. The payment is lower at 600 per eligible person and the income limits to qualify are stricter this time. However people who owe child support may have questions about whether they will still get the checks.

As it currently stands the heals act may allow the irs to withhold some or all of. He irs has begun direct depositing stimulus payments due to the covid 19 pandemic. With the second check those who owe child support will not have their payment garnished to.

About 50 000 people whose payments were garnished will be. 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. If you owed child support your first stimulus money could be taken for arrears the amount you owe.

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.