2017 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 49. Public assistance and children and family services.
49.96 Assistance grants exempt from levy.
49.96 Assistance grants exempt from levy. All grants of aid to families with dependent children, payments made under ss. 48.57 (3m) or (3n), 49.148 (1) (b) 1. or (c) or (1m) or 49.149 to 49.159, payments made for social services, cash benefits paid by counties under s. 59.53 (21), and benefits under s. 49.77 or federal Title XVI, are exempt from every tax, and from execution, garnishment, attachment and every other process and shall be inalienable.
AFDC money did not lose its exemption from garnishment when it was deposited in a checking account. Northwest Engineering Credit Union v. Jahn, 120 Wis. 2d 185, 353 N.W.2d 67 (Ct. App. 1984).
A support order against actual AFDC grants is prohibited, but an order against earned income of one who also receives AFDC is not. In Support of B., L., T. & K. 171 Wis. 2d 617, 492 N.W.2d 350 (Ct. App. 1992).
