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Office Of Child Support EnforcementThe Federal agency responsible for the administration of the Child Support Enforcement program. Created by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act in 1975, OCSE is responsible for the development of child support policy; oversight, evaluation, and audits of State and Tribal Child Support Enforcement programs; and providing technical assistance and training to those programs. OCSE operates the Federal Parent Locator Service, which includes the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) and the Federal Case Registry (FCR). OCSE is part of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), which is within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The following documents provide guidance, information, and direction to State and Tribal child support enforcement programs: Action Transmittal (AT) Document sent out by the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement, which instructs state or federally funded tribal Child Support Enforcement programs on the actions they must take to comply with new and amended Federal laws. Has basis in Federal law and regulation. Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) Letter sent out to those in the child support community, and interested partners, that conveys information on child support enforcement program activities. Information Memorandum (IM) Document that provides State and Tribal child support enforcement agencies with information on program practices that can be useful to program improvement. Policy Interpretation Question (PIQ) An official reply by the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) to an inquiry submitted by a State or tribal Child Support Enforcement agency concerning application of policy. Although questions often arise from a specific practice or situation, the responses are official statements of OCSE policy on the issue. The Federal government, through the child support program, shares the cost of the State program with FFP, Federal financial participation. Question: Who do you contact to Complain about Local Child Support Enforcement office? My local office is losing the checks that are taken from my ex husbands checks. He even has copy's of the checks cashed by the state. But they won't even look for the checks. I want to file a complaint. Question: How Can The Office Of Child Support Enforcement Break The Law To Enforce The Law? Once they serve the order of support on my employer, the employer has to start garnishing my wages because if they don't my employer can
A) Be fined and possibly be forced to pay the amount of the order as deemed by the courts
B) Have their business license suspended
This is if you look under the word "BLACKMAIL" or EXTORTION" in a dictionary these are both one and the same, but yet they can easily get away with it, but let me try and extort or blackmail someone and I will get a free stay at the Crossbar Hotel.
Maybe this is wrong but them using someone's social security number without their consent is a crime too? I mean if they can obtain your social security number and freely use it shows your social security number is really a way for the government to track you for their advantage and makes it really worthless!
As defined by Merriam Webster-Blackmail=extortion or coercion by threats especially of public exposure or criminal prosecution b : the payment that is extorted Question: Puerto Rico Child Support Enforcement Office? my fiance is in the us army stationed in NY - he is from PR and has a child support order based out of pr- we were just told that he is supposed to have a re evaluation on the support but he cannot get leave to fly to pr for 1 court session can ANYONE please help me find the phone number or adress to the PR child support office? Question: Anyone familar with the Florida Dept of Revenue Child Support Enforcement Office procedures on court hearings? Finally after almost a year, my court date is near to hopefully get child support for my 4 kids. Their Dad did return a financial paper to the DOR several months ago but doesn't know the full implication of the DOR. He will be served or mailed documentation for his presence at a court hearing in a few weeks. My question: What if he does not show up at the court hearing to determine child support? Any one with experience in this type of hearing and has dealt with the DOR please respond. Does the court go on and review the financial stats and award support even if the defendant is not present at the hearing or is it rescheduled? Can't imagine it would be rescheduled as the defendant might be a no show again and again whereas the children would not be awarded support and it would be wasting the courts time. Question: Is there any protection for the non-custodial parents in "Office of Child Support Enforcement" cases? My (ex)wife and I separated for a few months in 1999. She opened an OCSE case, and I paid child support. We were only separated for 2 or 3 months. We got back together, and she called to close the case and they said they were going to not close it but keep it inactive, to keep paying and we'd just get it back (mistake #1). We were together another 2 years (2001) before divorcing. On divorce, child support was set but not required to go through OCSE (paid to her directly) (mistake #2). I didn't always get receipts for my payments to her (mistake #3). In 2005 she filed for TEA which required her to (re-)open a OCSE case. Now OCSE is claiming that I owe back child support from 1999 to 2005 (when they started garnishing my wages). It totals $17,343.64. This includes from 1999 to 2001 when the case should've been closed because we were back together, and from 2001 to 2005, when I was paying directly to her. My ex refuses to tell OCSE that I was paying her directly...
...and I only have a handful of receipts from those years. I'm in deep trouble here, and I've done nothing wrong. I called a lawyer and he basically said, "if you use my services, it will be very expensive." Has my lack of documenting payments cost me $17,343? I have requested an audit of my case to further review what payments they are claiming I did not pay. I've banked with three or four banks and could (expensively) track some old checks that were paid to her, but it won't be enough. I remember so many times that we were on good terms and I gave her cash and she didn't give me a receipt. I feel like I'm being robbed. OCSE has been taking my federal tax refunds, and has blocked my ability to get a passport and they can even suspend my D.L.. I need help and I have no money to pay for that help. Please help!
I like the 1st and 3rd answers equally. I am letting this go to vote. Question: Can Child Support Enforcement offices require a college to give info on absent parents? My son's father's last known place of employment has until Friday to get back with the caseworker on the social security number... I know he's supposed to be/is trying to enroll in the local university. Can the caseworker make them give a ss# or current address??? Question: My father owes $25,000 in back child support and the enforcement office isn't doing anything, what can we do? We (me and my mom) have been trying for the past 5 years, they never return our phone call, and when they do they pretty much say they will take care of it and nothing happens. I have looked into and according to the North Carolina law he should be put in jail when he gets that far behind. Although this hasn't happened. Please Help! Question: Can you enter into private negotation on child support arrears? My ex owes me $3,000 in back child support and is currently making bimonthly payments on this amount. Our Child Support Enforcement office is involved in the case. My ex, through my attorney, wants to give me $1,000 lump sum cash, in exchange for forgiving the rest of what he owes. My friend said that it's not my debt to negotiate if Child Support Enforcement is involved and that I can enter into a private agreement but CSE can deny it. Does anyone know if this is true ? Just curious! Question: Should I report unemployment benefits to child support enforcement? My ex called me and asked me to go online for him to 'claim weeks' for unemployment benefits. He hasn't been paying a dime in support and already has 2 delinquencies so far. He owes thousands of dollars in back support and I really need this money! What I want to know is... will the child support enforcement office automatically be intercepting this paycheck he is supposed to be receiving from the unemployment agency, or should I be reporting this income to them; in an attempt for them to take action? I tried to call the office (it's in a different city) to get an answer to this, but have trouble getting through. If someone has had experience with this, your advice would be much appreciated. Thanks! Question: Can I sue the the Virginia Division of Child Support Enforcement? Roughly ten years ago, I applied for services from Virginia Division of Child Support Enforcement in order to obtain a child support order for my oldest daughter's father who lives in the state of North Carolina. At the time I applied, I was a resident of the state of Virginia. Just over 1 year ago, I relocated to North Carolina. Despite my move, I am still a client of the state of Virginia, and as such, my child support payments have ALWAYS been dispersed through the Virginia Division of Child Support Enforcement. My younger daughter's father and I split about 8 months ago and I applied for services from North Carolina (as I now live there) in order to obtain a support order from him (he lives in Virginia). Virginia is now refusing to disperse my child support payments to me because they are insisting I am a client of the state of North Carolina. North Carolina has already informed them I am NOT a client of their state for my oldest child's support case, and as such, they keep returning the money to the state of Virginia, who in turn sends it right back to them, and this keeps repeating in a vicious circle. I have contacted both state Child Support Enforcement Offices. North Carolina can do nothing because I am not their client. Virginia refuses to disperse the payments to me because they have attached a 3rd party payee code to my oldest child's account because I applied for services from North Carolina on an entirely different matter. These two child support cases are completely unrelated, and I am absolutely certain I am not the only mother in the United States who receives support payments from two different states. Can I sue the Virginia Division of Child Support Enforcement for refusing to disperse my child support payments to me as required by law? Question: Fathers: What do you think would happen if there was a federally fund Office of Visitation Enforcement, with? equal powers to the Office of Child Support Enforcement? Question: Do you really trust what the states are reporting on how much back child support is owed by fathers? The states gets 15% per year for enforcement of child support.
In most states, this comes to 3X the operating budgets for child support enforcement.
Do you think the states find ways to create child support debt, as well as find ways to inflate the figures, in order to receive ever increasing amounts of money from the federal government.
During the Clinton Administration, Judge David Grey Ross was head of the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement. He stated at a Conference for the Children's Rights Association that the vast majority of child support was paid in full. Soon after making that comment, he was replaced. Question: How can I get child support enforcement to do their job? I have all the info they need but still will not help I have pulled teeth for two years trying to get child support enforcement to do SOMETHING to get my ex husband to pay child support. I can't go to another office because they must do it in the county that HE lives in. CSE told me to get his address, and they can issue him a sopoena for court. I give them his address, but they won't do anything because his name is not on the lease. I cannot hire a lawyer, because (surprise) I have no money! It was suggested to me by a friend to go to the local news with it, but they do not want to do a story on how Dougherty county child support enforcement won't do their job. I am at my wit's end. I feel like my kids and I are just at the fringes of society, people that nobody cares about. I feel like we are second class citizens. I can't go to support kids because they will take 34% of any money we get, and we need ALL of it. I'm in school, trying to pave away for us. He is about ten grand behind, and we are really desperate. Question: Is there a way to get my child support sooner when it's being held by CSE? The irs and Missouri child support enforcement offset my ex's tax refund due to him being so far behind on child support. My ex got information on this from the IRS back in June but the child support enforcement is holding the payment until the end of August. He was not married so there is no injured spouse issue. Is there anyway to get the child support office to release it earlier, because I am in desperate need of these funds to get the kids ready for school. Question: georgia question about child support enforcement? is there a web site that i can go to where i can look up all payments made thru child support enforcement? no one in the office can give me a straight answer. they said that i was only behind 1000.00 over the last eight years and i thought part of my tax return would pay it. i just received a letter saying that they have taken all 4,000.00 of my taxes and can't give me a reason as to why. someone please help. i'm at my wits end! Question: Are there any 'downsides' to the passport for delinquent child support program? Advanced
AP
Passport rules snag child support cash
By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 14, 6:38 PM ET
WASHINGTON - The price of a passport: $311,491 in back child support payments for a U.S. businessman now living in China; $46,000 for a musician seeking to perform overseas, and $45,849 for a man planning a Dominican Republic vacation.
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The new passport requirements that have complicated travel this summer also have uncovered untold numbers of child support scofflaws and forced them to pay millions.
The State Department denies passports to noncustodial parents who owe more than $2,500 in child support. Once the parents make good on their debts, they can reapply for passports.
Now that millions of additional travelers need passports to fly back from Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean and South America, collections under the Passport Denial Program are on pace to about double this year, federal officials told The Associated Press.
In all, states have reported collecting at least $22.5 million through the program thus far in 2007. The money is then forwarded to the parent to whom it is owed.
Some people never learn.
A boxer paid $39,000 in back child support to the state of Nevada last year to get a passport, which he lost. This year, his promoter had to loan him $8,930 so he could pay off his new child support debts and get a new passport to fight overseas.
In one case last year, a man got his parents to pay his overdue child support — $50,498 to the state of Illinois.
"For us, it's been amazing to see how people who owe back child support seem to be able to come up with good chunks of money when it involves needing their passport," said Adolfo Capestany, spokesman for the state of Washington's Division of Child Support. "Folks will do anything to get that passport, so it is a good collection tool."
The $22.5 million reported to have been collected through the program this year is a conservative estimate. Some states voluntarily report the payments to the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement, but other states don't.
It took all of 2006 to collect the same amount under the program, which began in 1998.
Also contributing to the increased collections was a drop in the threshold for reporting child support debts to the State Department, from $5,000 to $2,500. As a result, 400,000 more cases were submitted to the department.
The state of Washington obtained $24,000 for Teresa Markley through the program. The money accrued over a couple of decades. She said she could have really used the money in past years, and at one point in the 1990s went on welfare for a few months to make ends meet. While her children are now grown, she said the payment still meant a great deal to her.
"What it means to me now is just to have some validation for the suffering I went through," said Markley, a resident of Tacoma, Wash.
Jeannette Dean of Seattle said she had to tap into her retirement savings and her son's savings bond to help pay for basic necessities after Washington state was unable to help her collect delinquent child support payments.
But this year, she received about $36,000 through the passport program. She said the money will be used to replenish the lost savings.
"It has given back to having a normal life versus struggling to pay dental bills and hospitals bills and things like that," Dean said.
The passport denial program is just one of several tools the government has to collect overdue child support. Overall collections totaled about $24 billion last year.
The largest share by far — $20.1 billion — came from withholding from a worker's paycheck. Unemployment insurance or state and federal income tax refunds can also be seized. States with lotteries also can deduct delinquent payments from winnings. Some states submit the names of those behind on their payments to credit reporting agencies.
Payments generated through the new passport requirements are an important sliver of what states collect each year on behalf of about 17 million children, said Margot Bean, commissioner for the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement.
"We often get payments of over $100,000," Bean said. "For whatever reason, this was the only way we could get the money."
For some families, the payments can mean the difference between having to rely on the government for assistance or not relying on it, Bean said. In cases where families have needed cash assistance through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, a portion of the payments received through the passport program is used to reimburse the government.
Another jump in collections from the Passport Denial Program can be expected next year or in early 2009. That's when the new passport requirements will likely take effect for land and sea travelers too.
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Passport Denial Program: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/newh… Question: who is over all the offices of child support enforcement in arkansas,THE BOSS? I really need help with this answer, my husband has over paid , and no one is helpful in crediting him back,or going by the court orders...aka OCSE....all we get is closed doors! and i am sick of it! we have proof threw the clearing house that shows over payment, he also has been paying for a 2 children over the age of 18 for two years , one is even 20 now.... threr are two children left under the age of 18......please any help would be useful . Question: Child Support Enforcement? My son's father and I had an agreement that he would pay our child's daycare and I would take care of other expenses for our son. Well, I found out that he was expecting another child and I filed for child support because I knew he would go back on his word. He only pays half the daycare now. Once I filed for child support, he petitioned for legitimation. Now the Office of Child Support has rescheduled our Child Support hearing twice due to the pending legitimation hearing. Is this legal? I was told by the Office of Child Support and my attorney that these were two separate cases. Please advise.Once his child support amount is decided, will he have to pay arrears? Question: Guys, are you on/paying child support? U may not know this but when u change/get jobs, they send your "Baby's Mama" a statement showing they have sent the request to your new employer. Problem is, this document has your Social Security Number on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guys this is dangerous!!! I received one 2 days ago about my son's father and as I bent down to throw it away, I saw his SSN on it and shredded it. Just think if someone had got that out of the garbage...they couldve ruined my son's father's credit. I even had a co-worker brag about her opening a VISA in her son's father's name and charging it up when he made her mad...now I see how she got his SSN! I called the Tennessee Child Support Office in Nashville and stated my concerns but the CSR seemed unconcerned! U all need to contact ur local or state Child Support Enforcement Offices and explain your concerns about being a victim of Identity Theft. Good Luck Guys!
Deelee: Alot of women dont even know the father's last name much less their SSN! LOL. This info should NOT be on any forms mailed out! The employer already has the father's SSN so it's not neccessary for the state to include this. They could just put the last 4 #'s. My main point was: these papers were almost trashed with him being a possible victim. Some "Baby Mama's " could give a XXXX about their child's father and may expose him intentionally!...that's my point. My insurance co. does not require the father's SSN, they require the child's SSN. If he is the primary participant, he's adding the child to his policy, not u adding him! Question: Question about Child Support Non Compliance? I had a court order for the father of my 2 year old child to pay child support on May 2006. As of now, my daughter hasn't received a penny. The employer is required to report his earnings, for witholding purposes. They didn't respond until October! The court papers I have say that the employer must respond within 14 days of the order (b/c they may be held in contempt as being non-compliant employers). Now, the employer is saying that he doesn't report enough income to withold the funds for child support, although the father himself reported that he made enough per month for the order to be $75/week. ($92/week now due to back child support owed). I have had to call the Office of Child Support Enforcement in my county. They've made no effort to enforce this order, nor have the followed up on any action against the employer for not responding for so long. I want to know how would I go about having the employer be responsible for the support order owed, due to non-compliance.
According to the laws in my state, the employer would be responsible for paying the full amount of back child support owed because they didn't comply with OCSE and provide the information required by the court. The father is a waiter at this major restaurant chain, and I know either he or someone in the company is lying for him to get him out of paying on this order. He's said in the past he's lied on his tip claims. I've finally received another document from OCSE, requesting an affidavit saying how much, if any, child support has been paid. I hand delivered that so they couldn't say they didn't get it in. So I don't know what my next step is. I've already been to court 3 times over this loser, and it seems like the court system is letting him get away. They said they would suspend his DL for non-compliance of child support, and send him back to court again. I just don't know what good they think that will do. Any info or advise would be greatly appreciated!
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