‘Orwellian Nightmare’: Brooklyn Attorney Says New Federal Mail Policy Could Destroy Child-Support Debtors
By Daniel Wagner
Associated Press
COURT STREET — 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.