{ "id": "RS20352", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "RS20352", "active": false, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 102690, "date": "1999-12-01", "retrieved": "2016-05-24T20:40:45.586941", "title": "Centralized Collection and Disbursement of Child Support Payments", "summary": "P.L. 104-193 requires state Child Support Enforcement (CSE) agencies to operate a centralized\nautomated unit for collection and disbursement of payments on two categories of child support\norders: (1) those enforced by the CSE agency and (2) those issued or modified on or after January\n1, 1994, which are not enforced by the state CSE agency but for which the noncustodial parent's\nincome is subject to withholding. The state disbursement unit generally must use automated\nprocedures, electronic processes, and computer-driven technology to collect and disburse support\npayments, to keep an accurate identification of payments, to promptly disburse money to custodial\nparents or other states, and to furnish parents with a record of the current status of support payments. \nThe collection and disbursement unit provisions went into effect on October 1, 1998; except that\nstates that processed the receipt of child support payments through local courts could continue to\nprocess those payments through such courts until September 30, 1999. All of the jurisdictions with\nthe October 1, 1998 deadline, with the exception of California, are now operating state disbursement\nunits. Information is not yet officially available with regard to states with the October 1, 1999\ndeadline. (States have until December 31, 1999 to notify the Department of Health and Human\nServices (HHS) as to whether or not they have a centralized disbursement unit.) HHS expects that\nCalifornia, Nebraska, Ohio and perhaps five or six other states will not meet the October 1, 1999\ndeadline. Because of the total loss of CSE funding plus possible loss of Temporary Assistance for\nNeedy Families (TANF) block grant funding for states that are not in compliance with the state\ndisbursement unit requirements, Congress has passed legislation ( H.R. 3194 ) that would\nimpose a lesser alternative penalty for these states. On November 18, 1999, the House passed\n H.R. 3194 , an omnibus appropriations bill, that contains a provision that would lessen\nthe penalty for states that are not in compliance with the centralized state disbursement unit\nrequirement. On November 19, 1999, the Senate passed H.R. 3194 . This bill was\nsigned into law ( P.L. 106-113 ) on November 29, 1999. This report will not be updated.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RS20352", "sha1": "776bcf1959d1f845f80f7fd1ee4290d673ceff47", "filename": "files/19991201_RS20352_776bcf1959d1f845f80f7fd1ee4290d673ceff47.pdf", "images": null }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/19991201_RS20352_776bcf1959d1f845f80f7fd1ee4290d673ceff47.html" } ], "topics": [] } ], "topics": [ "Appropriations", "Domestic Social Policy" ] }