The Indiana justices unanimously denied an emergency petition filed by Indiana Legal Services and five other nonprofit law firms asking the state’s highest court to extend the protection against garnishment to stimulus payments under the American Rescue Plan of 2021.
The court had blocked collection attempts in the past; Jon Laramore of Indiana Legal Services filed a petition in April asking the Indiana Supreme Court for emergency rules to protect Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act money distributed in 2020 from garnishment.
“There needs to be some vigilance if we want to protect this money so that it can be used for the purpose Congress intended it, that it not be pulled out of banks with no notice or little notice and applied for other purposes,” Laramore told News 8 in April.
Monday’s ruling was a different story.
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