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Is the recovery rebate credit able to be offset for debts or child support if the taxes are normally offset already?

I have a child in my home that I care for.
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MinhT1
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Is the recovery rebate credit able to be offset for debts or child support if the taxes are normally offset already?

The first stimulus payment ($500 per child) may be offset for child support.

 

The second stimulus payment ($600 par child) cannot be offset for child support.

 

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[Edited 01/14/2021  10:53 AM PST]

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Is the recovery rebate credit able to be offset for debts or child support if the taxes are normally offset already?

So even though the heroes act forbids the second stimulus from being taken for child support it will still be taken?Child support can take the money given for one child to give it to another?

Is the recovery rebate credit able to be offset for debts or child support if the taxes are normally offset already?

US Treasury website - https://fiscal.treasury.gov/top/faqs-for-the-public-covid-19.html

 

Your entire Economic Impact Payment under the CARES Act can be offset, up to the amount of your child support debt

Is the recovery rebate credit able to be offset for debts or child support if the taxes are normally offset already?

I read that the rebate recovery credit im supposed to receive for my new child can be offset for past due child support.Is that true?So theyll take my stimulus payment for my baby and give it to child support?

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