If you don’t pay a government debt, they may get a second bite at the apple. By law, Treasury can withhold funds from payments owed to you, like a tax refund, to collect—a process known as offset.

Most of us rely on our tax refunds every year to keep us afloat and maybe, if we're lucky, get us a bit ahead. So when they're drastically reduced by new tax laws or garnished for something else, it's ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- As advance tax refunds are mailed out this summer, some will be intercepted to help pay past-due child support payments. The state's Child Support Recovery Unit works with the ...

BURLINGTON, N.C. — Michael Bailey is a father of three kids. Bailey has a son and two girls. The kids have grown up and are either in college or working. Bailey is proud of all three kids, but it has ...

The Internal Revenue Service started accepting income-tax returns on Jan. 27, opening the spigots of refund money shortly ...

Many parents may not be so happy when they file their tax returns this year. They could discover they're getting smaller refunds than they usually do. That's because more than 36 million families ...