So my husband owes child support arrears from way back when which we have paying down every year. The kids are grown and there are no current payments due. But we do have 2 little kids ourselves together and nobody talks what happens to the stimulus payment for the dependents, the $500 if the husband owes child support and I file injured spouse. Do I only get my $1200 and the kids $500 is taken away to pay the ex who has no little kids anymore? Or is only the husbands money offset after I file my injured spouse or is the payment just cut in half? Let's say we should get $3,400 (2 x 1,200 + 2 x 500) so we get only 1,700 after I file injured spouse and half of the whole payment is offset to the ex? But why not keep all the money for the dependents, the $500? Why do the little kids have to suffer which we have now together? The exes kids are grown and out of the house and the arrears are not very high yet still higher than the $1,700 so it is all offset what they usually offset. They say the ex needs it but not thinking the child support arrears are for a very old debt which are slowly being paid off so there are no underage kids involved anymore. But there are little kids who need the $500 and at least half is stolen from them!! While this is ok any other time and I understand and deal with it every year without complain in a PANDEMIC which never happend in our lifetimes, an extraordinary situation, this is absolutely thoughtless and heartless towards the kids of the current marriage!! We need it for food , we need it to survive! The ex is getting her stimulus check AND my husbands but why are is the IRS taking the money from my little kids as well? Shame on the IRS, Shame on the administration who did not think about this. Shame. And shame of being so slow and let us wait just to offset it. There should be NO offset right now and everybody should get their check to have it for food and SURVIVAL. Thanks I am debt free but I am dead of starvation....
