Legal Opinion
Opinion No. Oag 10-88, (1988)
Wisconsin Attorney General Reports
Decided March 10, 1988Published
1Opinion of the Court
TIMOTHY F. CULLEN, Secretary Department of Health and Social Services
For several years, section 49.41, Stats., has provided that all grants of aid to families with dependent children and other benefits listed therein are "exempt from every tax, and from execution, garnishment, attachment and every other process and shall be inalienable." With the enactment of 1987 Wisconsin Act 27, subsection (2) to section 49.41 was created and provides that grants of AFDC may be garnisheed as provided under section 812.233 which also was created by 1987 Wisconsin Act 27.
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