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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Friday, July 8, 2005
Contact: ACF Press Office
(202) 401-9215
Child Support Enforcement Head Named
HHS Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Wade F. Horn, Ph.D., today announced that Secretary Mike Leavitt has appointed Margot Bean as the head of the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). Currently in charge of the child support enforcement division of the New York state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, Bean begins service in the Bush Administration on July 25.
“I welcome Margot Bean aboard our team as she prepares to lead a department that helps families from New York to rural America,” said Dr. Horn. “Under the leadership of President George W. Bush, Margot Bean will be a key player in this Administration’s effort to give children a better and brighter future.”
Margot Bean was the deputy commissioner and director of child support enforcement under Governor George Pataki starting in May 2000. Before that role, she served as an attorney in the child support office. Prior to accepting her New York positions, she was the deputy attorney general and director of child support enforcement for the Office of Attorney General in Guam.
The mission of OCSE is to assure that assistance in obtaining financial and medical support is available to children through locating parents, establishing paternity and support obligations and enforcing those obligations.
As part of HHS’ Administration for Children and Families, OCSE is working to strengthen families by promoting greater access and visitation to children by non-custodial parents, implementing new strategies to improve child support outcomes through healthy marriage programs and helping incarcerated or recently released parents establish, or re-establish, a supportive family relationship that contributes to the emotional and financial well-being of their children.
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