Paperless Child Support Payments May Cost Poor Fathers Only Source Of Income
Associated Press
February 28, 2012
WASHINGTON — Old child support debts could cost thousands of poor men their only income next year because of a policy aimed at reducing the cost to the government of mailing paper checks to pay federal benefits.
The Treasury Department will start paying benefits electronically next March. It will stop issuing the paper checks that many people rely on to safeguard a portion of their benefits from states trying to collect back child support.
States can freeze the bank accounts of people who owe child support. A separate Treasury Department rule, in place since last May in a preliminary form, guarantees them the power to freeze Social Security, disability and veterans’ benefits that have been deposited into those accounts.
Once paper checks are eliminated, about 275,000 people could lose access to all of their income, advocates say.
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in a way its right but many times women take men to the cleaners that were not entitled to that money, his is wrong and just more Obama bs. what a joke our country is going on. this is madness, but in some cases its good too in some ways for the honest women who deserve it.