Change On Federal Benefits Payments Could Leave Child Support Debtors With No Income

[mntleo2]

71. Hearts Umbram!!!!!!!

...my ex husband is on Social Security and they take 1/2 of his check ~ for which I do not get a red cent even though I worked and provided for our kids for almost 10 years without child support before I had to go on public assistance due to an on-the-job injury. Even though we divorced we raised our kids together and are on good terms, but he is unable to even have enough to pay any rent ~ and btw the taking of his Social Security does not count when it comes to calculating other benefits (medical and housing) for himself except for food stamps. They take the GROSS of the little he gets to calculate everything as if the child support does not exist.

While he could not afford to pay child support, he was *not* a deadbeat dad, participating in every aspect of raising his kids from caring for them while I worked for a wage, to attending their sports events and taking them to the doctor. Our kids are grown now, but frankly the TIME with them was far better than any money he could have paid if he could have, which he could not.

The reason the government is passing this bill is so THEY get their money, it has *nothing* to do with children (as usual in spite of their "poor little babies" meme). Who gives a damn about the needs of kids when there is money to be "saved"?


Love, Cat in Seattle