National Electronic Child Support Resource System

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The Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) has become an invaluable tool, providing the child support community with accurate and timely information about noncustodial parents involved in child support cases. This document provides information that can be used to increase collaboration between child support and child welfare agencies in the States by educating child welfare staff about how they can access information from the FPLS via their Stateâ¿¿s Parent Locator Service, to help locate individuals who have or may have parental rights to a child receiving services from the child welfare agency. The handout also provides information regarding referring IV-E cases for full child support services and when it might be better to request limited location information.

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This report reviews findings of a demonstration to use existing automation to establish and modify child support orders for several jurisdictions in Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Tennessee and West Virginia. Automated data used in this demonstration comes from the State and National Directory of New Hires and State Workforce Agency. The report lays out recommended steps States and local child support offices should consider in developing a plan to make better use of automated information services in their establishment and modification processes.

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The Department of Treasury¿s Financial Management Service (FMS) has provided the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) with the offset fees for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008.

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This report provides highlights, results and lessons learned from a variety of Section 1115 and Special Improvement Project grant projects involving collaboration between child support enforcement agencies and the judicial system. The grant projects demonstrated that enhanced collaboration between child support agencies and the courts generally improved child support program efficiencies and/or provided better services to parents.

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Summary of key findings from ten State IV-D agency Medical Support demonstration projects covering section 1115 and Special Improvement Project priorities from FY 2000 to 2004.

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This letter is to inform you of the annual user fees that each state will be assessed for use of the Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) and the Child Support Enforcement Network (CSENet) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008.

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Data Reliability Audit Requirements for the Fiscal Year 2007 Reporting Period

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El Salvador, Hungary, Saskatchewan and the Yukon Territory have each been declared a ¿foreign reciprocating country¿ or FRC for child support enforcement purposes by the United States pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 659A authority.

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Dear Colleague Letter announcing that the Social Security Act requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate administrative subpoena and notice of lien forms. Also in compliance with the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Administration for Children and Families is soliciting public comment on the forms.

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This Dear colleague letter State Child Support Enforcement agencies, under title IV-D of the Social Security Act, to enforce the health care coverage provision in child support orders.

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QUICK is an electronic application that allows caseworkers to view interstate case information in real time. This will allow caseworkers to view 34 different case activities underway or completed by another State.

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The dear colleague letter describes that each state must submit two certifications letters to the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement.

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As requested during the National Child Support Interstate and Systems Symposium last year, the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) is supporting efforts to improve the business use of the Child Support Enforcement Network (CSENet) as part of its Continuous Service Improvement Initiative for Interstate Communications.

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The need to reauthorize the standard interstate forms provides the opportunity to consider some revisions. In preparation for such considerations, the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) hosted a face-to-face work group meeting in Washington, DC from January 31 through February 2, 2007. The group was comprised of State representatives from across the Federal regions, Tribal representatives, OCSE Regional Offices and OCSE Central Office.

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This Dear Colleague Letter announces the publication of the Medical Support Collaboration Meetings Summary May - 2006 that is a summary of the two meetings hosted by the Administration for Children and Families in May 2006. At these meetings, Medicaid, State Children¿s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Child Support Enforcement, Tribal Child Support Enforcement, and Child Welfare State directors from each State developed a plan of action to address identified issues and to assess progress in implementing their plans of action developed at the 2005 meetings.

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PAID Practices is the first of several PAID tools intended to assist child support enforcement programs in considering steps to improve their performance in areas of child support and arrears.

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17th National Child Support Enforcement Training Conference

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Child support payments increase following access and visitation services Child support payments increase following access and visitation services

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The Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) is preparing to implement the Federal Parent Locator Services (FPLS) Release 07-01

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The AV profiles presents state access and visitation data for FY 2005.

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These formulas are used to calculate a Stateâ¿¿s PEP

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OCSE initiated a Continuous Service Improvement (CSI) project within the Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) to examine how the FPLS and its systems could be improved to better serve our customers.

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Transmission of Office of the Inspector General's Report State Use of Debt Compromise to Reduce Child Support Arrearages (OEI-06-06-00070); Other Resources on Debt Compromise and OCSE Follow-up

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This study compares the participation of minorities in the Child Support Enforcement program in recent years using a Census Bureau national survey: Current Population Survey-Child Support Supplement. The data were combined over the years in order to achieve sufficient sample sizes.

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This letter summarizes key findings from the three recently released reports evaluating the PFF demonstration projects - The Implementation of the Partners for Fragile Families Demonstration Projects - Partners for Fragile Families Demonstration Projects: Employment and Child Support Outcomes and Trends - Voices of Young Fathers: The Partners for Fragile Families Demonstration Projects.