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How Child Support Services Can Help Your Family

Parents are responsible for the support and health of their children. In cases of divorce or single parenthood, both parents maintain their responsiblities.

By helping parents meet their obligations, Child Support Services enhances the well-being of children, promotes positive parental involvement, and improves the self-sufficiency of families. 

Child Support Services can help you:

To read more, click here.

 

Are you an employer?
Resources are available to you in the Employers section below.

A new Reasonable Cost Calculator (requires Microsoft Excel) is available as of July 1, 2008! The calculator helps determine whether enrolling a child in an employer-sponsored insurance plan is affordable under the reasonable cost definition. See the Reasonable Cost Calculator Instructions for more information.

 

Contact Child Support Services:

Mail your Child Support payments:

Call 1-800-356-9868;
Call 334-2479 in the Boise area; or
e-mail: idcscs@policy-studies.com

Idaho Child Support Receipting Services
P.O. Box 70008
Boise, Idaho  83707-0108

Information for ParentsPrint this
When a child is born to parents who are not married to each other, no legal bond exists between the child and father until legal fatherhood, also called paternity, is established.
Parents may establish legal fatherhood through a simple and inexpensive acknowledgment process.
If you have lost contact with the other parent, Child Support Services may be able to help.
If you or the other parent are not absolutely sure who the child’s father is, genetic testing is available
Children need financial and emotional support from both parents, even when a parent lives in a different state or country. Child support agencies in every state (and many countries) work together to provide services for children.
Set Up/Change Child Support Court OrderPrint this
In Idaho, child support orders are signed by a judge and order a parent to pay child support and provide medical coverage, if it is available through an employer. If you do not have a child support order, Child Support Services can help you through the legal process to get one. To begin the process, Child Support Services sends you a letter requesting information from you and explaining what you must do.
Each child support order is carefully determined with a child’s best interest in mind. However, as time passes, circumstances change and it may become necessary to change your child support order. In Idaho, all child support orders must be signed by a judge. You can ask Child Support Services to guide you through the process of changing a child support order, you can choose to hire a private attorney, or you can do it yourself.
Make Sure Children Receive SupportPrint this
Once a child support order exists, Child Support Services can help ensure it is followed
Direct Deposit and Idaho Quest Card  (Receiving Payments) 
You may choose to have payments deposited directly to your checking or savings account or deposited into a special account you can access using a Quest® debit card.
Medical insurance coverage is crucial so children receive medical care they need to prevent health problems, care for illnesses, and treat injuries. Providing medical insurance is an important part of supporting children. Child Support Services can help make sure parents who do not live with their children help meet their medical needs.
EmployersPrint this
To use EFT/EDI for remitting child support payments quickly and easily, follow the three steps listed in this document.
This document describes programming requirements for submitting transactions electronically to the State of Idaho
Employers play a vital role in the financial support of Idaho’s children. As an employer, you help support children by reporting new hire information, withholding income from parents’ pay and sending it to Child Support Services, and enrolling children in employees’ medical insurance plans

This document explains how employers help children by enrolling them in dependent medical insurance coverage available to their employees. It also explains why and how the employer complies with the NMSN program.
About Child Support ServicesPrint this
Child Support Services can help make sure children receive financial and medical support from both parents in a variety of ways.
Child Support Services is dedicated to ensuring that children receive financial and medical support from parents. Unfortunately, while we realize that children need parents’ involvement and emotional support, we are unable to help parents resolve custody and visitation issues.

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