[Amanda]

Lengthy post but a couple of quick questions:

When calling the TOP hotline which option to I choose to find out about child support offsets?

My fiance and I fully expect his entire refund to be taken do to back child support (which is fine, he owes it) but when we’ve called and chosen option one it says they have no offsets for his ssn. I thought it was a government debt since it’s court ordered? Anyway the line seems to be down now so I can’t check option two.
He received a letter in August stating how much he owes and that they intend to take it. That’s why we’re pretty positive they will. I just feel like it should already be in the database. He’s currently paying child support twice a month and they take his whole check. I don’t think that would make a difference though as they still want past money owed.

My other question is if it’s being offset would tax topic 203 already show on WMR? Right now it just says his refund is being processed and has tax topic 152. Will it pop up later?

I had some of my refund taken last year for student loans but it was unexpected so I hadn’t paid attention to the tax topics.

We live off of his tips all year because the state already takes his entire paycheck for child support so I think part of me is holding out hope that we’ll get something but I know that’s just wishful thinking. I stay home with our baby so it would be nice to get the credit for her back, but I don’t think they take that into consideration. The money is owed them so I can’t really complain. It just sucks to lose so much money. The offset this year will cover over half of his back support so this should be the only year that we’ll get nothing.

Anyway thanks for reading and I hope someone can answer those questions. ☺️

[Amanda]

My fiance filed on January 29th and it was accepted right away. He has an EIC and Child tax credit. His status bar on WMR hasn’t moved since that day and we never got the PATH message. He just has the first bar and the generic tax topic 152. I feel like he filed a little early so something should have updated by now. I know with those credits they couldn’t do anything until yesterday but I feel like other people that filed later after getting updates and we’re stuck 😭

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