How to protect social security from garnishment

Hi webber,

Welcome to the forum.

As far as I know Social security funds are not subject to garnishment. Only the Government can garnish your social security funds if you don't pay the Federal taxes or child support.

Feel free to ask if you have any further questions.

Best of luck,
Larry

webber, i think you are actually referring to the garnishment that might be placed on your bank account after the social security deposit is made...is that right?

the only way i can think of, off the top of my head, is for your deposits to be made to an account that is not your own; but which you have access to in some way.

Hello Weber,

As Larry stated your social security check is exempt from garnishment but there are exceptions listed below.



I hope this is helpful.

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Jeanette Smith
Mortgage Planner
Union Mortgage Group

You will need to let the bank know that has your account that these are actually social security funds that are not to be garnished, they may not be aware, you should make them aware that they are actually social security benefits, then they can watch out for any attempts of garnishment.

Thats about the best way to do it. Other than that I can not think of anything else myself.

The bank does not know what deposits are what, you definately have to point it out to them just to be safe.

This is true..thats why I say only deposit ss checks in one account with no other deposits. It would be easier for the bank to be aware of what that account consisted of. These days it is like pulling teeth to get help from anyone including your bank.

it will be up to you as the social security reciever to go to the bank and make sure that the bank is aware, I would go directly there and make sure that they know that it is social security and that it is not to be touched as far as any type of garnishments.

Maybe it already is. I don't think they have come back.

Probably not, we usually end up with the ones that post questions that end up where we don't hear from the original poster again. If I took the time to post a question, I would come back to see if anyone answered me or not. Hopefully the original poster will come back and see us.

I know what ya mean. Ithink sometimes they forget to bookmark a site and then can't refind it.

True, did not think of that, maybe they have lost their way and don't know where they posted it.

Social security is a non garnishable income, but it will definately be on the person who is recieving the benefit to make the financial institution aware that this is the income that is coming into the bank account wether by regular or direct deposit.

If the individual is not capable of letting the bank know then their representative or payee should take on this responsibility. If this is the case then a power of attorney should be done and the bank should be aware of the power of attorney. It is not the bank or the financial institutions responsibility to seek this information and they will not take the time.

It will be almost impossible to recover the money once it has been withdrawn so taking care of this is vital right from the beginning. If this does happen to you then maybe you can file a dispute of charges at the bank and hope that you can have your money refunded. But to be safer take the proper steps prior to this happening, you will be better off.

Could not have said it any better erb, but I never thought about the people who do not have the capability to do it on there own, thank you for bringing them to our attention. I suppose there are alot of people out there who are in this situation. great points here.

There are alot of people who don't even relize the ss benefits are not garnisnable. If they do, most are unable to go about getting it stopped. It really is such a small m onthly amount. If it were garnised how would a person survive. Especially in this day and time.