Behavioral Interventions for Child Support Services Demonstration Program (BICS)
BICS is a demonstration program exploring how to better understand individuals’ behavior and decision-making ability when it comes to child support. Known as behavioral economics, this approach uses insights from psychology and related fields to explain why and how people act. BICS is testing how behavioral economic strategies affect child support results by focusing on different areas, including early engagement and right-sizing orders.
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Behavioral Interventions for Child Support Services
Published: October 14, 2016BICS fact sheet #1 introduces the demonstration to test whether behavioral economics can improve child support resultsFY 2014 OCSE Grant Awards
Published: July 29, 2015FY 2014 award information for 1115 and Special Improvement Project GrantsUsing Behavioral Economics to Help Incarcerated Parents Apply for Child Support Order Modifications
Findings from a behavioral intervention designed to increase the number of applications for order modifications from incarcerated noncustodial parentsHHS Behavioral Insights: Conference Recording
First HHS Behavioral Insight meeting held on March 14, 2014Behavioral Interventions to Enhance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) Project
Results from the BIAS project on applying behavioral insights to issues related to design and implementation of social service programs and policiesFunding Opportunity Announcement - Evaluation of BICS
Original funding opportunity announcement issued in 2014 for the Evaluation of Behavioral Interventions for Child Support Services Grants
Last Reviewed: January 19, 2017