Ohio Child Support
Office of Child Support
The Office of Child Support is dedicated to improving the lives of Ohio's children. Ohio has an excellent performance record in a number of areas within child support - including collecting just over $2 billion in child support in 2004.* This amount includes $1.47 billion in income withholding and over $133 million in tax offset collections. With the third largest caseload in the nation, Ohio continues to look for ways to make the program easier, more effective, and more customer-friendly for our clients. Some of those ways are initiatives using technology to enhance how parents can make and receive payments in a safer and faster way. More information about them can be found within the "Parents" section. ... [Read More]
Office of Child Support
Annual Report - Ohio Office of Child Support - State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2002 ... Child Support Brochures ... Annual Report - Ohio Office of Child Support - State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2001 ... [Read More]
Ohio's Family Support Collaborative (FSC) - Information for Families Who Have Children with Disabilities - Home Page
Ohio's Family Support Collaborative (FSC) is administered by the Ohio Legal Rights Service (OLRS), an independent state agency and the federally and state designated Protection and Advocacy system and Client Assistance Program for children and adults with disabilities in the State of Ohio. The FSC Web site provides information for families in Ohio who have children under the age of 22 with disabilities. The information provided helps families find services for their child's medical, financial, educational, and daily living needs. This information also helps families to become better advocates for their child's needs. Information for adults with disabilities is provided within the main section of the OLRS Web site . ... [Read More]
Office of Child Support
ODJFS has been publishing the Ohio Child Support "Most Wanted" Poster since 1992, when the initiative was established by Senate Bill 10. The goal of the poster is to locate non-residential parents whose whereabouts are unknown and who are seriously negligent in paying child support. The poster is published bi-annually and features ten non-residental parents from throughout the state. ... [Read More]
Child Support Reform Shareholders Group
The purpose of the Child Support Reform Shareholders' Group is to assist the State of Ohio, counties, and child support partners in improving programs and the delivery of quality services to all parents and their children. The shareholders' group will take a holistic approach to establish long-term priorities and to develop innovative strategies to create a more effective and efficient child support program in Ohio. ... The CSRSG worked hard to solicit and obtain public feedback. Feedback from parents, caretakers, employers, and child support professionals was important to the group's development of recommendations to improve Ohio's child support program. Public feedback was sought through community forums , a statewide telephone survey, and the worldwide web. Feedback from child support professionals was sought from CSEAs. ... [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]
Office of Child Support
Office of Child Support ... The Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System is the phone-in telephone response system for the Ohio Child Support Program. The IVR system provides information on payment and balances as well as the telephone numbers and addresses of county CSEAs. ... You may call 1-800-860-2555 (toll free) or 1-866-500-3784 (TDD) specifically for IVR. When the connection is made a brief message will come on explaining the system. The system prompts you to select a language (English or Spanish). You can then either select to hear your total balance due information or obtain your county Child Support Enforcement Agency's phone number and address (which you can do at any time by pressing ). To obtain balance information, you must enter your Social Security Number. If you have already established a PIN, you will be prompted to enter your PIN. If you have not established a PIN, you will be prompted to do so. ... [Read More]
Ohio County Job and Family Services Agencies
Child Support Enforcement Agency ... Internet E-Mail Address: child support@co.wood.oh.us. ... CSEA = County Child Support Enforcement Agency ... [Read More]
Office of Child Support
Child Support Payment Central (CSPC) was developed by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS), Office of Child Support, in response to Federal legislation mandating the implementation and operation of a state disbursement unit (SDU) for collecting and disbursing child support payments. All child support payments must be processed by CSPC. ... During the first two years of operation, CSPC sent out employer remittance coupons to all employers who actively withhold wages for child support. From experience, CSPC found that many employers frequently used their own internal statements instead of using the coupons supplied by CSPC. As a result, the Office of Child Support is currently reviewing this program. For at least the first three months of year 2003, CSPC may not send out employer remittance coupons. During this time, employers should do one of the following: ... [Read More]
Office of Child Support
The responsibility for implementation of the Child Support (IV-D) program is shared by federal, state and local agencies, each with clearly defined roles. The federal agency responsible for child support enforcement is the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) which is located in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It establishes standards for state programs. In Ohio, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) is the designated IV-D agency and within ODJFS, the Office of Child Support has the primary responsibility for the child support program. Each county in Ohio is required to establish a separate child support enforcement agency (CSEA). Thus, responsibility for the child support program in Ohio is shared by the state and each of Ohio's 88 counties. ... [Read More]
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