H.R. 6850 · 116th Congress
To protect stimulus checks from garnishment and fees and from being used as an offset by a credit union or…
Full title
To protect stimulus checks from garnishment and fees and from being used as an offset by a credit union or depository institution, and for other purposes.
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This bill prohibits the transference or assignment of a 2020 recovery rebate by legal process, including attachment, levy, or garnishment. Additionally, credit unions and depository institutions are prohibited from seizing a rebate to pay an amount due to them.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · May 13, 2020
Protect our Checks Act of 2020
This bill prohibits the transference or assignment of a 2020 recovery rebate by legal process, including attachment, levy, or garnishment. Additionally, credit unions and depository institutions are prohibited from seizing a rebate to pay an amount due to them. A 2020 recovery rebate is a stimulus payment made to individual taxpayers and their dependents who have been affected by the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: To protect stimulus checks from garnishment and fees and from being used as an offset by a credit union or depository institution, and for other purposes.
Latest action (May 13, 2020): Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector · Origin: House · Introduced: May 13, 2020
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.