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.

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Originally Posted by LovingMommyOf3

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.

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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.