DCL-08-15

ATTACHMENTS: Preliminary Report FY2007

DATE: April 11, 2008

TO: ALL STATE AND TRIBAL IV-D DIRECTORS

RE: FY 2007 Preliminary Data Report

Dear Colleague:

Enclosed is a copy of the Child Support Enforcement (CSE) FY 2007 Preliminary Data Report. This report provides financial and statistical information on the Child Support Enforcement Program for Fiscal Year 2007.

Please note that information presented in this report does not take into account the data reliability audits currently being conducted on incentive-related data items. State officials should carefully review data to ensure that numbers included in this report agree with timely submissions to the Office of Child Support Enforcement. Please contact regional offices with any concerns.

While you review this report, I want to draw your attention particularly to the results of our hard work in the past year on the Project to Avoid Increasing Delinquencies, the national PAID initiative. I am delighted to report that, unlike in the recent past, this year we met our national performance goals of 61 percent for both current support collections and collections on arrears. In addition, total distributed collections amounted to almost $25 billion in FY 2007, a 3.8 percent increase over the amount collected in FY 2006. Of the $30 billion current support that was due, approximately 61 percent ($19 billion) of that amount was collected and distributed, a 4.2 percent increase over the previous fiscal year's total.

There were over 11.3 million cases with arrears due and over 61 percent of these cases had collections in FY 2007. The total amount of arrearages reported for all previous fiscal years was over $107 billion and over $7 billion of these arrearages was collected and distributed in FY 2007, an increase of 2.4 percent from the previous year.

We know that we have more work to do and we expect that the results of our recent PAID initiatives will be more evident in the year ahead. I look forward to our combined continued efforts and hope you will keep sharing your good ideas to increase collections and decrease arrearages.

Sincerely,

Margot Bean
Commissioner
Office of Child Support Enforcement

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