Considerably more clear. For some reason the linked article also keeps changing font size, like a badly copy-pasted email. The money quote, for anyone wonderin

Considerably more clear. For some reason the linked article also keeps changing font size, like a badly copy-pasted email. The money quote, for anyone wondering how they can collect debt on people's children: "The Federal Trade Commission, on its Web site, advises Americans that “family members typically are not obligated to pay the debts of a deceased relative from their own assets.” But Social Security officials say that if children indirectly received assistance from public dollars paid to a parent, the children’s money can be taken, no matter how long ago any overpayment occurred." That seems like very tenuous legal theory, as it seems like it could apply to any debt the parent accrued, at least while they had dependents. I'm curious if this has gone through the courts before, but unfortunately this seems to be in one of those legal loopholes of civil cases, that you don't have a right to defend yourself in court before they take money from your refund, and in order to bring suit, you have to prove you have standing, which most people don't have for decades old debts of their parents...