Free The Children Coalition

Why isn't there any hope for those who have been abused by the child support agencies and have no money to fight?According to their own records we owed nothing 1/2000-8/2000. Then suddenly they said we were back arrears of $11,000. Then they garnisheed so much that if not for mom's house on the poor side of town & our disabled son's SSI we would have been homeless. Then our son took seizures and almost died. Because of his size my husband quit working to take care of him in 2003. He went back to work part time in 2007 and Ohio started claiming his EIC return.Ky. lifted the lien they had placed on him here for Ohio in 2007 because Ohio refused to explain to Ky. how he went from owing nothing to having back arrears. Nor why some of the payments we do have proof of they don't. They refuse to speak to anyone but my husband who has no idea how to explain all of this. So they continue to take the EIC Doug gets for our son to pay back arrears (their records show don't exist) for his first two sons now 35 & 31 yrs. old with kids of their own.I contacted the Ohio AG with all this & he said it wasn't his job. To contact Legal Aid. Legal Aid says there is a conflict of interest because they represented his wife & set the child support amount when he was in the Army & overseas.There was one attorney in Toledo that said he might take it pro bono then discovered how messed up the records were and evidently changed his mind because he never returned any of our calls.Now we're struggling on SSI and Doug got a part time job at minimum wage which took all our food stamps & made our income too high for substidized heating/cooling asst. Michael needs new shoes & clothes but they seized 2009's EIC for $600. He didn't even get the stimulus payment until we can prove that now that he's an adult he's still disabled. Evidently they have different guidelines for the disabled once they become adults.Our car broke down and though it'd take little for the part to fix it & I can afford the $7. getting church friend or BIL out here is like pulling teeth.So we are spending a fortune in just gas for neighbors to take us shopping or to work.I've contacted radio stations, newspapers & TV stations in Toledo and no one wants to do the story because evidently no one has any compassion for the men or second families suffering. His wife had the affair, divorced him & refused to let him see his kids despite visitation rights.The oldest (35) refuses to speak to him and the youngest (31) doesn't have the time to bother.Both were alienated from their dad by their mother.We're scared to death LCCSEA is going to start garnisheeing his paycheck again.Because it's supposedly back arrears it's not deductible so we'd still be ineligible for food stamps in Ky. & if he quits we'd be banned from food stamps for 6 months.Yet if we divorced there would be all kinds of help we could get. I (we) feel so beaten down we wonder why bother even trying any more. No one that can help will w/o money.So prayer is all we have left & our own seem to be hitting the ceiling so we could use all the intercessory prayers we could get. Evidently when it comes to Ohio child support agency only God alone can make them heel. I know another couple going through something similar & are at risk of losing their home because Ohio refuses to look at any records including their own. Thanks for letting me sound off a little. I just feel so frustrated.