State Strategies for Improving Child Support Outcomes for Incarcerated Parents
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State Strategies for Improving Child Support Outcomes for Incarcerated Parents
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Child Support
The Child Support Program, enacted in 1975 as Part D of Title IV of the Social Security Act (P.L. 93-647), is one of the largest income support programs in the country, serving more children than the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and Social Security combined.
Enhancing Child Support Enforcement Efforts Through Improved Use of Information on Debtor Income
Contents
Background
Summary of Findings
Implications for State Child Support Enforcement Agencies
Background
Benefits and Costs of Increased Child Support Distribution to Current and Former TANF Families
Contents
Methodology
Pass-through and Disregard Results
Distributing All FTRO Child Support Collections to Former Welfare Families
Effects on Administrative Costs
Conclusion
Serving Noncustodial Parents: A Descriptive Study of Welfare-to-Work Programs
Contents
Designing Employment-Focused Programs for NCPs
Getting NCPs to Participate
Full Range of Services in Comprehensive Programs
Conclusion
Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives
This brief summarizes key findings from several important fatherhood initiatives that were developed and implemented during the 1990s and early 2000s. Formal evaluations of these fatherhood efforts have been completed, some quite recently, making this an opportune time to step back and assess what has been learned and how policy makers and program
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Assessing Child Support Arrears in Nine Large States and the Nation
Despite record child support collections by state child support programs, considerable sums of child support go unpaid every year. This report provides a profile of state child support debt, examining who owes it and why it has grown so rapidly, based on analysis of state administrative data. Earnings data from the wage reporting system were used
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Enhancing Child Support Enforcement Efforts: Summary of Data Warehouse Efforts in Nine States
This report provides information about State child support enforcement offices experiences with data warehouses; that is, how they are used to help manage program operations, assess program effectiveness and efficiency, and inform policy development. This report summarizes findings from discussions with staff in nine states about the development,
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Enhancing Child Support Enforcement Efforts Through Improved Use of Information on Debtor Income
This report examines how some of the information available to OCSE and the states' IV-D programs through the Federal Parent Locator Service can be used to enhance enforcement efforts. Specifically, this report explores the potential income sources of non-custodial parents with arrearages. It examines alternative income sources for those obligors w
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Benefits and Costs of Increased Child Support Distribution to Current and Former TANF Families
This project models the effects of child support pass-through and disregard policy to estimate the benefits and costs of various federal and state policy choices. It estimate the effects of both program variables, such as changes in other public benefit payments and administrative costs, and some individual variables, such as noncustodial parents'
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Interaction of Child Support and TANF: Evidence from Samples of Current and Former Welfare Recipients
Welfare and child support programs have long been intertwined. Given the common populations served and the role that child support payments play in self-sufficiency and cost recovery, understanding the interaction between child support and welfare is important. This report examines the interaction of child support and welfare receipt by analyzing
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Giving Noncustodial Parents Options: Employment and Child Support Outcomes of the SHARE Program
The Support Has A Rewarding Effect (SHARE) initiative operated with Welfare-to-Work (WtW) grant support in three counties in the state of Washington. SHARE offered three options to noncustodial parents (NCP) whose minor, dependent children were receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and who were in arrears on their support obliga
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State Practices in Medical Child Support Cross-Program Coordination
This study describes policies and practices in Connecticut, Minnesota, and Texas designed to coordinate the child support enforcement program, Medicaid, and SCHIP in order to secure and sustain appropriate health care coverage for child support-eligible children. Based on the findings from site visits to the three states, the report documents both
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Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives
Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives
February 2008
Prepared for: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Prepared By: Karin Martinson and Demetra Nightingale The Urban Institute
This report is available on the Internet at: http://asp
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Characteristics of Families Using Title IV-D Services in 1995
CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES USING TITLE IV-D SERVICES IN 1995
By Matthew Lyon
May 1999
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Data Source and Methodology
Findings
Overall Child Support Population
Participation in Welfare and Other Government Programs
Family Income and Poverty
Child Support and TANF Interaction: Literature Review, April 2003
Child Support and TANF Interaction: Literature Review
Prepared for: Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Prepared by: The Lewin Group Mary Farrel, Asaph Glosser, and Karen Gardiner under subcontract to Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
April 11, 2003
State Practices in Medical Child Support Cross-Program Coordination
State Practices in Medical Child Support Cross-Program Coordination
Prepared by : Lynne Fender, Jen Bernstein (The Urban Institute)
for : Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Office of the Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
June 2003
This report is available on the Internet at: http://a
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Giving Noncustodial Parents Options: Employment and Child Support Outcomes of the SHARE Program
In recent years, policymakers and program administrators have increasingly focused on the role of noncustodial parents (NCPs) in the lives of low-income families. One example is S upport H as A R ewarding E ffect (SHARE) , an initiative operated with Welfare-to-Work (WtW) grant support in three counties in the state of Washington.