Over the years, I and my staff have written and advocated extensively about our concerns with the IRS’s implementation of the Federal Payment Levy Program (FPLP). My concerns are amplified by a recent IRS change in policy regarding adding military retirement payments as a payment stream to FPLP. In this blog post, I will provide relevant background on the issue. In the second part of the blog, I will discuss the data points upon which the IRS relies in justifying FPLP levies on military retirement payments, why those figures are inaccurate and misleading, and why I believe military retirement payments should be run through the Low Income Filter (LIF) to mitigate the risk of economic harm to these retirees. Read More