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handle is hein.crs/crsuntaagdu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code 94-319 Updated August 29, 2006 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web The Child Support Enforcement Program: A Fact Sheet Carmen Solomon-Fears Domestic Social Policy Division The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program, Part D of Title IV of the Social Security Act, was enacted in January 1975 (P.L. 93-647). Its main goals are to reduce spending for actual and potential recipients of public welfare by obtaining support from noncustodial parents on an ongoing basis; and to establish paternity for children born outside of marriage so that child support can be obtained. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands operate CSE programs and are entitled to federal matching funds. To qualify for federal matching funds, each state's CSE plan must be approved by the Office of Child Support Enforcement, Department of Health and Human Services. The CSE program provides seven major services on behalf of children: parent location, paternity establishment, establishment of child support orders, review and modification of support orders, collection of support payments, distribution of support payments, and establishment and enforcement of medical support. Collection methods include wage withholding, intercept of federal and state income tax refunds, intercept of unemployment compensation, liens against property, and providing child support debt information to credit bureaus. (For more information, see CRS Report RS223 80, Child Support Enforcement: Program Basics.) P.L. 104-193, enacted August 22, 1996, made significant changes to the CSE program. It required states to establish an integrated, automated network linking all states to information about the location and assets of parents, requires states to increase the percentage of fathers identified, requires states to implement more enforcement techniques to obtain support collections from noncustodial parents (such as withholding, suspending, or restricting the use of driver's licenses, professional and occupational licenses, and recreational licenses of debtor parents), and made many other changes.' Federal law requires applicants for, and recipients of, Title IV-A benefits (i.e., formerly Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), now the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant) to assign their support rights to the state in order to receive Title IV-A benefits; and to cooperate with state CSE agencies if necessary to establish paternity and collect payments. Families that refuse to cooperate (without good 1 For more information on the 1996 CSE law, see CRS Report 97-408, Child Support Enforcement: Recent Reforms and Potential Issues, by Carmen Solomon-Fears (archived, available upon request). Congressional Research Service + The Library of Congress

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