Earn Miles for Making Child Support Payments

by Gary Leff

I’ve done a lot of crazy things in my life to earn miles. I had a hair loss consultation for 20,000 Delta miles (even though I am far from balding). Then there was the Lasik eye exam (I don’t wear glasses). And the Wendys-Airtran promotion which led to a rash of dumpster diving.

Once upon a time you could even earn miles by donating blood.

But here’s one I hadn’t seen: Earn miles for making child support payments.

I had no idea this existed. Apparently Mastercard and Discover are accepted by Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin. (This settles a mystery of ‘what merchants take Mastercard but not Visa..?) Visa and Mastercard are accepted by Arizona, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.

The author of the Milepoint thread on this earns miles in Georgia, I haven’t researched the rules on which cards are accepted there.

New Jersey stopped accepting credit cards on November 8th. I’m not sure why that deal was killed, it doesn’t apparently have anything to do with overexposure on blogs.

Now that this has been uncovered, though, I predict a major surge in unmarried, unprotected sex. Or mileage-junkie divorces.

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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  2. I have a couple of employees that have child support orders. Their child support payments are automatically withheld from their paychecks, I make the child support payments on the employee’s behalf via online through the State of California Child Support Website using Visa or Master card. Thus as an employer my employees earn me miles by having to pay child support. There are no fee’s or surcharges charged for this service to employers or employees.

  4. I’ve been paying child support with a cc in a roundabout way for the last 5 years. My ex and I get along well so my support is not court ordered. Once I got my HHonors Amex she let me pay my child support in the form of paying her cell phone bill and get 6x points

  7. Oh great – now the bloggers have caused a sudden surge in the divorce rate since all the newbies are going after this new gold mine!

    “New Jersey stopped accepting credit cards on November 8th. I’m not sure why that deal was killed, it doesn’t apparently have anything to do with overexposure on blogs.”

  9. Priceless. Is there a frequent fathering forum for these deals?

    Gary, we look forward to future articles explaining how you managed to churn this opportunity!

  10. Wow, never thought my post would make it to the big time.

    After I have learned so much from your blog and others I am glad I could contribute.

    In Georgia they take MC and Visa only and they charge $1.78 service fee for making payment online. YMMV but I wished I had started earlier my points would have been in the high 5 digits just from these payments alone.

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