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handle is hein.crs/crsuntaajge0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS22753 Updated November 8, 2007 CRS Report for Congress Child Support Enforcement: $25 Annual User Fee Carmen Solomon-Fears Specialist in Social Policy Domestic Social Policy Division Summary P.L. 109-17 1, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, required states to impose a $25 annual user fee for Child Support Enforcement (CSE) services provided to families with no connection to the welfare system. The user fee is to be assessed if the state CSE agency collects at least $500 in child support payments on behalf of the family in a given fiscal year. The law gives the states four options on how to obtain the user fee. According to a survey of the 54 jurisdictions with CSE programs, 26 jurisdictions impose the user fee on the custodial parent, 19 jurisdictions pay the fee with state funds, 1 jurisdiction gets the fee from the noncustodial parent, and 1 jurisdiction charges half of the fee to the noncustodial parent and the other half to the custodial parent; the other 7 jurisdictions did not respond to the survey or the issue is still unresolved. This report will be updated as new information becomes available. Background The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program was enacted in 1975 as a federal- state program (Title IV-D of the Social Security Act) to help strengthen families by securing financial support for children from their noncustodial parent on a consistent and continuing basis and by helping some families to remain self-sufficient and off public assistance by providing the requisite CSE services. The CSE program provides seven major services on behalf of children: (1) parent location, (2) paternity establishment, (3) establishment of child support orders, (4) review and modification of child support orders, (5) collection of child support payments, (6) distribution of child support payments, and (7) establishment and enforcement of medical child support. Collection methods used by state CSE agencies include income withholding, intercept of federal and state income tax refunds, intercept of unemployment compensation, liens against property, reporting child support obligations to credit bureaus, intercept of lottery winnings, sending insurance settlement information to CSE agencies, authority to withhold or suspend driver's licenses, professional licenses, and recreational and sporting licenses of persons who owe past-due support, and authority to seize assets of debtor parents held by public or private retirement funds and financial institutions. Congressional Research Service ' The Library of Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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