If back child support is owed but you are paying on it and you are getting an IRS tax refund Do you get the refund or is it used to pay on your child support?

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I actually pay child support to my son's father (all for the sake of a better schooling system) and my tax refund is always taken, as a matter of fact, anything in the form of payment with my social security number is taken to pay back child support. I always receive a letter from the dept. of taxation titled: offsset, but it's always all taken. I once won $1500 on a lottery scratch off and that was intercepted by child support! I have other children, not the same father as my son and I live in low income housing and I am always behind in payments, plus the arrears. I am told the only way to break this cycle of what I call "Voluntary Poverty" is to die or claim bankruptcy...and I don't know which is actually more helpful.