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Help Us Stop Private Debt Collectors from Garnishing COVID-19 Relief Payments!

Last week, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Tim Scott (R-SC) introduced a bill [[link removed]] to protect future recovery payments provided in the recent CARES Act pandemic response legislation from garnishment by private debt collectors. While the CARES Act does not allow for the payment to be reduced for past tax debts or most other debts owed to federal or state governments, payments are not protected from being garnished by private debt collectors. As a result, many families may have not received the payments that they were depending on.

For any electronic payments, such as direct deposit, the bill directs the Treasury Department to encode payments so that banks can identify and protect these payments from being garnished by debt collectors. For other payments, such as checks, the bill allows individuals to request that their banks or other financial institution protect the payments from being garnished by debt collectors and authorizes the financial institutions to do so.

Help working families receive the support they need! Please take a moment to email your Senators and encourage them to cosponsor this important bi-partisan bill.

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For additional questions, please contact Emanuel Nieves [mailto:[email protected]]. Thank you for joining us in this fight and standing up for working families!

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