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California keeps millions in child support while parents drown in debt Advocates say California places low-income and minority parents in debt by garnishing child support payments and imposing high interest rates when they fall behind. Credit: Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters Stacy Estes in front of his home in Sacramento, Calif on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters Author: Kate Cimini, CALmatters Updated: 9:09 PM PDT May 3, 2021 CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters. Lea este artículo en español....

Repaying public aid Stacy Estes in front of the home he shares with his fiancée in Sacramento on April 7, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters $18.4 billion. That’s how much California parents owe in overdue child support payments, but a staggering $6.8 billion of that debt is due to the government, not families — the result of the Golden State keeping an unusually large portion of payments for itself. No other state in America takes a higher percentage of payments — and only one state charges a higher interest rate when parents don’t pay on time, the Salinas Californian’s K...

April 30, 2021 Stacy Estes in front of his home in Sacramento, Calif on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters Half of Stacy Estes’ pay disappears every month before it hits his bank account. Each check is about $500 lighter than it should be, intercepted in the name of child support — which he wouldn’t have a problem with, if it were going to his kids. Instead, only $225 goes to his children. The rest is garnished to repay government debt he began accruing more than two decades ago when he first got behind on child support payments.  The 53-year-old Estes owes a...