A quickie article answering a common question: can you garnish Social Security disability benefits for child support?
Title 2 Disability Insurance (aka SSDI or DIB) benefits can be garnished for child support.
However, Title 16 Supplemental Security Income (aka SSI) benefits cannot be garnished.
This is general information only and not legal advice. Contact a lawyer for advice on your specific circumstances.
My daughter may go to live with her father she is 12. I have been disabled since 1997 and on social security benefits only as my husband works I'm not eligible nor have ever taken the ssdi. My question is, how is my child support figured out as far as what I pay? The court facilitator told me I have to include the auxilery benefits. How can I do this if she is not living with me I'm assuming I am no longer entitled to the auxilery benefits and only my benefit should be in that child support calculation. Which is true?