Nationwide Child Support Program Fails Actual Needy Families

You will find yourself asking the questions too. Why is the federal government so involved in child support enforcement when the collections associated with Current Assistance Cases total less than one half of what the States are collectively spending on their own contribution to the program? It is definitely time to reign in free for all welfare spending by our federal government.

Over participation continues to be a major problem in the nation’s child support enforcement program. I have highlighted important sections regarding participation numbers, collections, and undistributed child support. Net Undistributed Collections appears to make up the equivalent of about 50% of the total collections of means tested needy families. These are nationwide numbers. You will see that between former and never assistance, actual needy families are a super minority of this social welfare program.

Adding eligibility requirements into the nation’s Title IV-D/Child Support Enforcement Program will benefit needy families and will also constitute a significant savings to the taxpayers at both the federal and state levels. Removing affluent feuding families from the program will also benefit children of those divorce and child custody cases, by emphasizing on the parent-child relationship rather than encouraging bickering and fighting over who is going to receive a check and for how much.

Actual Federal Expenditures Nationwide: $5,593,864,242.00 (Billions)

Estimated State Expenditures Nationwide: $1,845,975,199.86 (Billions)

Taxpayer Expense, not including other social programs and costs of incarcerations is over $7 BILLION!

ACTUAL COLLECTIONS FOR MEANS TESTED NEEDY FAMILIES: $946,283,222.00 (Millions)

(please note there is no verification to determine if the money was distributed after collection.)

This program would be better off distributing money out of the budget directly to needy families and just get rid of the employees behind the Child Support Enforcement Agency. With Net Undistributed Collections totaling nearly 50% of the amount collected for needy families, one has to wonder how many needy families are indeed being helped by the program. There appears to be no need for federal government involvement, since the amount distributed to needy families is about HALF of what the states are spending to keep their portion of the program going.