Does the Child Support Collection Unit and DSS have the right to take all of my arrears when the overpayment has been paid back?
The child support collection unit is telling me that my court order for termination of my child’s support states that they are to adjust the ledger accordingly and she’ll calculate and collect any arrears by administrative means. They have taken most of my child support when I was on pa from 11/1/24-08/11/25. Now they are saying they have legal right to collect and keep the remaining arrears owed. My dss caseworker sent me a termination letter stating that I would have to pay 3,340 for overpayment. Dss has received $4,000 of my arrears so far and now the want to take the rest of the 2300.
In this question, it appears the asker's ex obtained an order of support she assigned to the department of social services. We cannot tell if any lack of the asker's payments drove the other parent to seek welfare help, but the obligation to pay child support makes the department the recipient of the asker's payments.
Now for the asker's question. It seems the asker was on public assistance, but he does not tell us how and for how much his order of support was reduced either by operation of law or by an order from a family court. Nonetheless, the asker writes of an overpayment that the department made to him, but now seeks an arrearage we do not know the source of.
The asker must see an attorney with his documentation to determine the validity of the arrearage and the reason and amount of the overpayment. The question lacks information for a cogent answer.
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