Minnesota Child Support
State Practices in Medical Child Support Cross-Program Coordination: Main Page
Ensuring that children have access to health care coverage through the provisionof private insurance by one or both parents is an important part of childsupport enforcement efforts. The health care coverage and medical expensespaid on behalf of these children are usually referred to as medical childsupport. State family law governs the establishment of child support orders,whether or not they are established through the IV-D child support system.State child support guidelines must consider the provision of health carecoverage as part of the child support award process. State child supportagencies must petition the court or administrative hearing officer for medicalchild support from noncustodial parents for all custodial children who arereceiving services under Title IV-D, whenever such coverage is availableat reasonable cost. The IV-D program can use a variety of methods to enforcemedical child support orders for children in their caseload. ... [Read More]
Office of Child Support
Ohio Child Support Enforcement Agencies (CSEA) ... Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) ... National Electronic Child Support Resource System (NECSRS) ... [Read More]
Getting Off The Ground: Implementation Findings about Child Support Enforcement, Head Start, and Child Care Collaboration Demonstrations: Main Page
EARLY IMPLEMENTATION FINDINGS ABOUT CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT, HEAD START, AND CHILD CARE COLLABORATION DEMONSTRATIONS ... Appendix A: Memorandums on Head Start/Child Care/Child Support Enforcement Collaboration ... Appendix A: Memorandums on Head Start/Child Care/Child Support Enforcement Collaboration ... [Read More]
Making Child Support Safe
This document was prepared by Mathematica PolicyResearch, Inc. (MPR) under a subcontract agreement with the UrbanInstitute and funded by the Office of Child Support Enforcement(OCSE) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Theauthors wish to thank the many people who contributed to itscompletion. First and foremost, we thank Tom Killmurray, theoriginal project officer from OCSE, whose patience andunderstanding throughout the study’s evolution helped tobring it finally to fruition. Gaile Maller, upon Tom’sdeparture, continued to provide helpful guidance and suggestions.Other staff from OCSE reviewed drafts of the report and provided uswith constructive suggestions regarding its content. ... [Read More]
Child Support Report XXII, No. 6, 20000601
Children with a child support order are nearly twice as likely to receive financial support from their nonresident parent as children without an order; Parents who spend time with their children are more likely to pay child support; and Child support receipt varies across states. Of the 13 states studied, Wisconsin and Minnesota were the only states that had significantly higher percentages of children receiving the full amount of child support (30 and 29 percent respectively) than the nation as a whole. ... [Read More]
Chapter 12. Minnesota
Minnesota's child support program is county-administered and counties historically have provided the bulk of the state match for the Minnesota IV-D program. With the counties and the federal government as the primary funders, the Minnesota legislature decided to target its new state funding for the program on improving child support outcomes in areas critical to the state. Financial incentives to the counties would reward specific, measurable actions that would have a long-term positive impact on both families and the state budget. The areas targeted were review and adjustment of child support awards (many preceded the adoption of Minnesota's child support guideline), paternity establishment, and enrollment of children in noncustodial parents' health plans (saving Medicaid dollars in many cases). ... [Read More]
Child Support Report XXIV, No. 8, 20020801
The purpose of the Child Support Reform Shareholders' Groupis to assist the State of Ohio, counties, and child supportpartners in improving programs and the delivery of quality servicesto all parents and their children. The shareholders' group willtake a holistic approach to establish long-term priorities and todevelop innovative strategies to create a more effective andefficient child support program in Ohio. ... Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund, "StrengtheningSupport: Building Bridges Between Communities," is providingoutreach, awareness campaigns, education and advocacy services inchild support to Latino communities in Bridgeport, Hartford, NewBritain, and Willamantic areas. This project empowers parents tobecome child support advocates for community members who need helpnavigating the child support system. ... [Read More]
ACF Healthy Marriage Initiative - Currently Funded Healthy Marriage Projects - Office of Child Support Enforcement
PURPOSE: The purpose of this program, located in the Nampa, ID, area, is to improve child support outcomes (e.g., paternity establishment, child support order establishment, and child support payment), and to improve the operation of the child support program, primarily for couples with children or who are expecting children. The project aims at creating a better community attitude toward marriage, and provides training for marriage skills to couples with children. ... [Read More]
Automated Cost-of-Living Adjustments of Child Support Orders in Three States
Automated Cost-of-Living Adjustments of Child Support Orders in Three States ... Administration for Children and Families • 370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W. • Washington, D.C. 20447 ... [Read More]
Child Support News and Announcements
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) invites eligible applicants to submit competitive grant applications for special improvement projects which further the national child support mission, vision, and goals... ... The Administration for Children and Families announced today the publication of a new regulation to implement direct child support enforcement program funding to federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations. The regulations carry out provisions of the 1996 welfare reform law as amended by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which for the first time provided the option of direct funding of tribal child support enforcement programs. ... [Read More]
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