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Deranda
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Under Title 42, Ch.7, Subchpt.IV, Part D of Fed Law, the individual states are mandated to recoup cash assistance benefits from child support monies paid to children in households receiving assistance, to repay the Fed. treasury, with allowance for the States to also recoup payments to their own treasuries out of the children's Court ordered support. This law, in and of itself, appears to infringe upon the rights of the children to their own support. Shouldn't the recoupment of benefits be collected, not out of the children's monies, but demanded from the absent parents? And is it lawful for the State to demand a parent hand over $350/mo in Court ordered support paid for the past 16 years in exchange for a monthly food stamp benefit? My family was sanctioned, not from the cash benefit, but from receiving a measely $36/mo allotment of food stamps because I refused to hand over my children's only means of non-governmental support. (Call me stupid, but to me it seemed an insult to my intelligence to tell me that I could keep the $36 of food stamps every month only if I agreed to hand over to the State my children's support!...Of COURSE! I said, "NO WAY!!!") First of all, I thought that when a judge ordered an ex-spouse to provide child support, that those monies rightfully belonged to the child. I thought parents were responsible for their children's support. And I've never read anywhere that it was required for food stamps to be "paid back"...I can't work. I have two severely medically disabled children (the ones who receive the Court ordered support) and even lost a home-based business I started because it is simply impossible to keep up with all their medical appointments and work, too. Believe me, I WANT to support my kids! No local atty will help me work to get the laws changed. How can I get ANYONE to help me defend the children's RIGHT to their Court ordered support? How can I ever challenge this law and fight for its repeal (on the Federal and State levels)?