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## course summary

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-   Five basic responsibilities of the employer:

    -   Report newly hired employees and respond to requests for
        employment verification

    -   Withhold income for child support

    -   Enroll child(ren) in medical coverage

    -   Disburse withheld child support payments

    -   Report terminations

-   Purpose, benefits, and steps of new hire reporting

-   Purpose of new hire reporting: To locate non-paying parents who owe
    child support

-   Benefits of new hire reporting: Improves child support collections.
    State agencies operating unemployment insurance and worker's
    compensation programs use new hire employment information to detect
    and prevent overpayments to benefit programs.

-   What to report: Report six data elements about your new employee
    within 20 days of hire.

-   Income withholding: Calculating the correct amount of child support
    to withhold

-   Income withholding: Applying the CCPA limits to disposable income to
    arrive at allowable disposable income, which is what is available
    from the employee's paycheck for child support withholding.

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-   How to take into account any pre-tax deductions, imputed income, or
    tips.

-   Special situations

    -   How to handle multiple child support orders for one employee
        (prorate across all orders for current support)

    -   Not enough money available? Take maximum allowable

    -   Where to remit the child support payments

    -   Most likely destination: State Disbursement Unit (SDU)

-   Remittance methods: mail or Electronic Funds Transfer/Electronic
    Data Interchange (EFT/EDI)

-   Remittance deadline: within seven (7) business days **or sooner.**

    -   When child support withholding takes precedence

-   Handling medical support

    -   If you offer health insurance to your employees and the employee
        is eligible for enrollment, you must enroll the child as his
        dependent on the policy if so ordered.

    -   Deduct the premiums for the child from the employee's pay.

    -   OR you may simply be required to withhold an additional cash
        amount to cover medical expenses (or premiums paid by the
        custodial party, who has the health insurance).

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### Importance of your cooperation with the Child Support Enforcement Program {#importance-of-your-cooperation-with-the-child-support-enforcement-program .unnumbered}

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-   You collect more than two-thirds of all child support

-   You save taxpayers money

-   Child support collections reimburse public assistance spending and
    reduce costs for other social programs such as Medicaid and food
    stamps.

-   You prevent or reduce fraud

-   You contribute to a more stable workforce

-   Some of your own employees may be *receiving* child support and with
    it financial peace of mind

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You help kids!