Enhancing Child Support Enforcement Efforts: Summary of Data Warehouse Efforts in Nine States

摘要

State automated child support systems support a number of functions. They must contain all data necessary to manage cases and meet Federal reporting requirements.1 There are case initiation functions (e.g., accept automated referrals from the welfare, foster care, and Medicaid agencies and other state child support programs and maintain case records); locate functions (e.g., interface electronically with state and Federal sources to obtain and verify locate, asset, and other information about parents); establishment functions (e.g., track, monitor, and report the status of paternity and order establishment); case management functions (e.g., automatically update cases and provide information to other programs, support review and adjustment of orders); enforcement functions (e.g., monitor compliance with support orders and initiate enforcement actions such as income withholding and tax refund offsets); and financial management functions (e.g., process payments received, disburse payments).