Any tax refunds you receive will continue to be TAKEN until your back child support has been made current!!!!!
Yes, SSI is supposed to be UNTOUCHABLE.
There are SOME exceptions, between SSDI and SSI benefits.
No, generally a debt collector cannot garnish your Social Security disability benefits -- neither SSDI (disability insurance) or SSI (Supplemental Security Income).
Your disability income is exempt from creditors, subject to a few exceptions.
Exceptions. The federal government can garnish your Social Security disability benefit to recover money owed to it, such as back taxes or defaulted student loan payments that have been guaranteed by the federal government.
In addition your SSDI disability benefit can be garnished to recover back or current child support obligations.
If you receive SSI, it cannot be taken to pay even child support, student loan payments, or unpaid taxes.
If, however, your SSI was deposited into the SAME bank account where your self employed income was deposited, and ANY other monies; they usually snatch EVERYTHING they find sitting in the account.
You can try to get the SSI money back, by contacting your bank and telling them the SSI funds were supposed to be UNTOUCHABLE from being levied against.
You can also contact the agency that alleges you owe back child support and explain why your SSI wasn't supposed to be levied against.
The law also requires you to report your wages when you receive SSI.
Not reporting your EARNINGS, even self employed earnings, will cause trouble with Social Security.
Section 207 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 407) protects Social Security benefits from garnishment, levy or other withholdings by the federal government, except:
To enforce child support and alimony obligations under Section 459 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 659);
For certain civil penalties under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (18 U.S.C. 3613);
With a Notice of Levy to collect overdue federal taxes under Section 6334(c) of the Internal Revenue Code;
Through the Federal Payment Levy Program to collect overdue federal taxes by levying up to 15 percent of each monthly payment until the debt is paid under Section 1024 of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-34);
To withhold and pay another federal agency for a non-tax debt you owe to that agency according to the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-134).
