Goal: Increase Payments from Low-Income NCPs
- By addressing the underlying reasons for non-payment
Why Low-income NCPs?
- 1 in 3 NCPs are "dead-broke"
- Poor families increasingly dependent on child support as they leave welfare
- Increasing payment will increase involvement
Two Reasons Past Responsible Fatherhood Programs Failed to Produce Better Child Outcomes
- Low enrollment and retention rates
- Low post-enrollment earnings
|
Parents Fair Share |
OCSE RFP |
Poverty Level |
Average Annual Earnings |
$6,536 |
$7,649 |
$8,959 |
- Improving Program Enrollment
- Court-enforced mandatory participation orders
- Fathering Courts
- Jackson County, MO: resulted in $2M increase in collections
- Fathering court recently established in Washington, DC
- Increasing Post-Enrollment Earnings
- Past (failed) strategy - Job Search
- Promising Alternative Strategies - Wage Growth
Recommendations for State and Local Child Support Agencies
- Develop Fathering Courts
- Close relationships with judicial branch
- SIP grant money
- Support new and improved Responsible Fatherhood Demonstration
- Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act
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