HelenC12
Expert Alumni

Retirement tax questions

@xmasbaby is correct. You won't get your federal refund back since the garnishment happened before the CARE's act.

 

If you're asking if your stimulus check will be offset to pay your student loan debt, no, it won't be offset for student loan debt.  

  • The Act suspends all involuntary collection of defaulted Direct Loans and Department-owned FFEL loans until September 30, 2020. This explicitly covers non-judicial wage garnishment, tax offsets, and federal benefit offset (e.g., seizure of Social Security benefits). There is also a catch-all provision to cover other types of involuntary collection by the Department of Education. Source: DawnCO

[Edited 4-1-2020|5:55 am PST]

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