{"id":88866,"date":"2026-05-08T09:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88866"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:18:54","slug":"failed-to-pay-child-support-us-starts-taking-away-passports-from-parents-owing-as-little-as-2500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/08\/failed-to-pay-child-support-us-starts-taking-away-passports-from-parents-owing-as-little-as-2500\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed to pay child support? US starts taking away passports from parents owing as little as $2,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA22G6td.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Trump\u2019s face on new US passport \u00a9Dave Garcia: Pexels\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The US State Department is expanding enforcement of a federal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/hmrc-child-benefit-deadline-august-1794622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">child support policy<\/a> that allows authorities to revoke or deny passports for parents with unpaid child support debts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/failed-to-pay-child-support-us-starts-taking-away-passports-from-parents-owing-as-little-as-2-500\/ar-AA22Gluk?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69fda664f2a44ea992f4335bef3da041&amp;ei=45\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The US State Department is expanding enforcement of a federal\u00a0child support policy that allows authorities to revoke or deny passports for parents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/American-passport.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88868,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88866\/revisions\/88868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}