You’re right, it will probably resume in the future.
But I still question how they could legally do this. Adult children are not responsible for the debts of their adult parents. Or vice versa. Yet in this area, some bureaucrat decided they should do things this way.
Legality no longer matters it is the collection of funds from the American people for the purpose of distributing it to ones political friends.
My read on the “rationale” for this is that the children recieved/benefitted from the money. IOW they were dependents of the recipient at the time of the overpayment.
It’s a tenuous argument, at best. There’s no idea where the overpayments actually went to, so the gvt assumes it was to provide things for the dependents.
It was in the Farm Bill.
Steal from working Americans to pay for people on food stamps.
More of Holder’s & Obama’s ‘reparations’.