Background, I had 3 children with a man, he runs off on us when I am 5 months pregnant with our 3rd child. He was absent when I had the child. He has never met the 3rd child. The courts established paternity. Well, the "defaulted" him the father. They arranged for a paternity test, me and our son showed up, he didn't and by default the courts put his name on the birth certificate. A year later in March of 2009 he was ordered by the courts to pay $111 a week. This was established with the help of DHHS. 3 years go by, my kids have yet to receive a dime from him. I call DHHS today and speak to my child support worker and she tells me that in 2011 they got a letter saying that he was on SSI, which makes him exempt from ever having to pay child support to his children. He was on SSI when we were together, so I knew that he was already. We have an existing child support order. I can not collect from SSI for my children because he is on SSI not SSDI. I don't know what to do now. My kids deserve the support payments. I live in NH.

Background, i had 3 children with a man, he runs off on us when I am 5 months pregnant with our 3rd child. He was absent when I had the child. he has never met the 3rd child. The courts established paternity. Well, the "defaulted" him the father. They arranged for a paternity test, me and our son showed up, he didnt and by default the courts put his name on the birth certificate. A year later in March of 2009 he was ordered by the courts to pay $111 a week. This was established with the help of DHHS. 3 years go by, my kids have yet to recieve a dime from him. I call DHHS today and speak to my child support worker and she tells me that in 2011 they got a letter saying that he was on SSI, which makes him exempt from ever having to pay child support to his children. He was on SSI when we were together, so I knew that he was already. We have an existing child support order. I can not collect from SSI for my children because he is on SSI not SSDI. I dont know what to do now. My kids deserve the support payments. I live in NH.


If the law says his SSI cannot be tapped, then his SSI cannot be tapped. You knew this when you had (minimally) the last child with him. This shouldn't be a surprise to you. The support order is the easy part. Collecting is the hard part.

I'm sure your kids deserve the support. They just have no means of collecting it.