What is the name of your state? South Carolina
Apparently, South Carolina can claim or commandeer any State Income Tax refund you may have coming back and send it to hospitals, or doctors for unpaid bills -- EVEN if the bills are not owed because of a mixup or negligence on the part of the insurance company. There is no Due Process required via a judgment, no legal remedy, and no protection from this Draconian State practice. The worst and most criminal of these policies actually allows doctors to collect from spouses of deceased individuals even years after their spouse died. And, South Carolina will collect from your state income tax return for bills owed by your dead spouse in other states, at least NC in the case of Carolina Physicians Network.
How in the world can this be legal? There's no judgment to prove the debt is owed-- you just get a letter saying your tax refund has been sent to pay a bill you don't even know you owed-- and for that matter, may NOT owe.
Does anybody know what SC Code allows this?
Apparently, South Carolina can claim or commandeer any State Income Tax refund you may have coming back and send it to hospitals, or doctors for unpaid bills -- EVEN if the bills are not owed because of a mixup or negligence on the part of the insurance company. There is no Due Process required via a judgment, no legal remedy, and no protection from this Draconian State practice. The worst and most criminal of these policies actually allows doctors to collect from spouses of deceased individuals even years after their spouse died. And, South Carolina will collect from your state income tax return for bills owed by your dead spouse in other states, at least NC in the case of Carolina Physicians Network.
How in the world can this be legal? There's no judgment to prove the debt is owed-- you just get a letter saying your tax refund has been sent to pay a bill you don't even know you owed-- and for that matter, may NOT owe.
Does anybody know what SC Code allows this?