Stimulus Child Support Mississippi
Stimulus payments will not be garnished for child support according to memo from house committee.
Stimulus child support mississippi. The second stimulus check specifically addresses overdue child support. While tax debts and defaulted student loans won t reduce the amount received the money remains subject to state and local government garnishments and court ordered garnishments. 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.
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 irs has begun direct depositing stimulus payments due to the covid 19 pandemic. The consumer financial protection bureau says stimulus funds are subject to garnishment if people are not up to date with child support payments.
While he received a stimulus check in 2021 he says a portion of the check he received in 2020 was. State agencies in mississippi. Charles cory tells the fox31 problem solvers he is current on his child support payments.
Federal law and regulations determine when federal payments are intercepted and applied to child support arrears. Unlike the cares act which made it legal for states to garnish the first stimulus check for people who owed more than 150. State agencies who deduct child support payments from employee checks to pay to the mississippi department of human services can make remittances electronically via electronic funds transfer eft.
However people who owe child support may have questions about whether they will still get the checks. For example if you owed 2 000. This will not be the case for the second.