Section 49.96. Assistance grants exempt from levy.

  All grants of aid to families with dependent children, payments made under ss. 48.57 (3m) or (3n) , 49.148 (1) (b) 1. or (c) or (1m) or 49.149 to 49.159 , payments made for social services, cash benefits paid by counties under s. 59.53 (21) , and benefits under s. 49.77 or federal Title XVI, are exempt from every tax, and from execution, garnishment, attachment and every other process and shall be inalienable.

1973 c. 147 ; 1987 a. 27 , 399 ; 1989 a. 278 ; 1995 a. 27 s. 2940 ; Stats. 1995 s. 49.96; 1995 a. 201 , 289 ; 1997 a. 27 , 35 , 105 . AFDC money did not lose its exemption from garnishment when it was deposited in a checking account. Northwest Engineering Credit Union v. Jahn, 120 Wis. 2d 185 , 353 N.W.2d 67 (Ct. App. 1984). A support order against actual AFDC grants is prohibited, but an order against earned income of one who also receives AFDC is not. In Support of B., L., T. & K. 171 Wis. 2d 617 , 492 N.W.2d 350 (Ct. App. 1992).