Job Loss & Child Support

What You Need to Know

• By law, you must tell your child support agency within 10 days if you lose your job, if your income changes, if you get a new job, or if you change jobs. These changes will not change your court ordered payment amounts.
• Your court order for support continues after a job loss. (Only a court can change an order.)
• If your job loss is expected to last longer than 6 to 8 weeks, you can ask to have your court order reviewed for a change. This is not automatic.
• If child support payments were taken out of your paycheck, child support payments will now be withheld from your Unemployment Insurance checks.