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Office of Child Support Enforcement

This program works in cooperation with State agencies to ensure that child support, including financial and medical, is available to children by locating parents, establishing paternity, establishing the obligations of parents to provide child support, and modifying and enforcing those obligations.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The program, including State agency partners, is committed to achieving meaningful performance goals. For example, the program aims to increase the cost-effectiveness ratio (dollars collected per dollar spent) from $4.38 in FY 2004 to $4.63 in FY 2008.
  • The program should improve medical support enforcement. There are approximately three million children without health care coverage in the Child Support Enforcement system.
  • The Child Support Enforcement program should encourage responsible parenthood.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing early intervention strategies to prevent and improve collection of unpaid or overdue child support. About 66% of people who owe debt report less than $10,000 in income.
  • Developing medical support enforcement proposals and developing two new indicators to measure the extent to which medical support is not only ordered but also provided in child support cases.
  • Implementing the provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act. Examples include new child support enforcement tools, revised medical support requirements, new distribution policies, and a new user fee.

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