Can stimulus checks be seized for back child support?
Apparently the IRS thinks so. They've decided to seize stimulus checks as if they were tax refunds. Moreover, take this scenario:
Suppose a child support payor has remarried and the payor and the new spouse are both receiving a stimulus payment (let's say $600 for the payor and $600 for the payor's spouse). Do you think the IRS can hold the portion of the check which is due to the payor's spouse? In other words, can they take the whole $1200, or just the $600 that would be coming to the child support payor?
Yeah, that's what I would have said, too, but the IRS disagrees with us. They'll seize the whole $1200. You didn't really expect the IRS to do the right thing, did you?
posted by Brent @ 6:00 PM
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why would anyone marry a deadbeat who owes back child support anyway? If they did & were not smart enough to know about tax offset & filed JOINTLY with thier new deadbeat spouse they deserve what they get... IRS IS doing the right thing for the CHILD(ren)DUH, You marry a person with children under 18- you become a responsible parent to those children, whether YOU made them or not
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