little bit of a detailed situation, The mom and the dad split up. He has to pay her a certain amount of child support. She’s had food stamps, government supplied healthcare and WIC assistance when raising the first child. Now she had another baby with a live-in boyfriend who is transiently employed.
She lied to get food stamps, for instance, asking for them when the 2nd father wasn’t employeed or when she wasn’t employeed herself. Since they do have employment some of the time, she lied.
So I know that’s fraud, the government could ask her to pay back some portions and even deny her for future assistance. Now, this being said, will the child support being paid by the first father be able to be legally raised if she were denied food stamps (in order to compensate)?
We’re worried that she’ll raise what he’s already paying (which is a lot as it is given that we are the ones that clothe the child, provide day care and have extended stays well past what we are expected with her because her mom and her boyfriend are always fighting and breaking up. It’s perfectly fine for her to stay with us for as long as she needs a loving place to stay, but the fact that he pays SO much to child support then we end up supporting her is ridiculous.
Given her support from the government, the only thing the child support would go to is the mom’s gas and rent (which is reduced due to her income to 0 per month and bills are covered partially under an allowance). Ya I know.. that’s cheap right?
We just wish the money we pay her could go more toward the child and less toward her.
We’re just worried that if and when she’s denied food stamp assistance that his child support will be raised. We’re just getting by one what we have and that would really put us in a bind.
Thanks!
I don’t mean to be selfish, but even though she gets child support, she still tells us we have to pay for all miscellaneous medical expenses even though that’s not what’s in the papers and she’s covered by government assistance. And she tells us we have to buy this and that all the time because she doesn’t have the money to, even though he doubles her net income by child support.
It’s crazy. I know that it’s to her discretion but this is just asinine. And we found out she uses what money she has to go get tattoos and buy beer and bail her boyfriend outta jail and pay his installments on fines at the court house when he doesn’t have a job. Ugh. It’s sickening me. And she refuses to clothe her little girl, saying she never has any money.