# Presentation: 269793

## Social Security’s 2006 National  Payroll Reporting Forum

- The Changing World of
- Child Support
- May 11, 2006
- Anne Gould
- Manager, Employer Services Team
- Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement

## Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA)

## DRA Provisions	

**More child support to TANF families**
**Reduced trigger for passport denial**
**Collection of arrearages owed to adult children**

## DRA Provisions

**Federal-level matching of insurance claims**
**Both parents to be considered as sources for medical support**
**Reduced Federal funding**

## Electronic Payments for Child Support(e-payments)

## e-payments

**E-payments benefit both employers and state child support enforcement agencies.**
**Facilitates more timely distribution of payments to families.**
**Most large employers and payroll service providers remit e-payments through the ACH network.**

## e-payments

**State e-payments average = 25%**
**Illinois and Indiana average = 50%**

## e-payments

**Illinois, Indiana, and Massachusetts currently require employers to remit child support payments electronically.**
**California and Florida will require employers to remit child support payments electronically effective **
**	****October 1, 2006. **

## e-payments	

**Web-Based Payments**
**Many states have developed web-based payment services for the small- to ****medium- sized employer:**
**AR, CT, FL, IA, ID ,IL, IN, LA County, MI, ****MO, NC, NE, ND, OH, OK, PA, TN, TX, VA and WA.**

## e-payments	

**Resources to help you:**
**NACHA User Guide for Electronic Child Support Payments (http://ecsp.nacha.org/)**
**OCSE’s Tips for Employers**
**State E-Payments Contact **
**OCSE Employer Services Website **_**www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/newhire/ employer/home.htm**_
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## e-payments

**Questions about e-payments? ****Contact Nancy Benner:**
**Email:  nbenner@acf.hhs.gov**

## California State Disbursement Unit - Sacramento

## California State Disbursement Unit

**California passed legislation requiring child support payments to be remitted electronically to the SDU. **

## Electronic Income Withholding Order Project (e-IWO)

## e-IWO

**OCSE, states, and employers developed a process to transmit the income withholding order electronically.**
**Both public and private employers have provided input to the project.**

## e-IWO

**Standard record layouts and workflow documents were developed.**
**e-IWO allows options for flexibility for employers**
**Automate the acceptance and processing **
**Select manual intervention for reviewing the e-IWO**

## e-IWO	

**Employers can report termination or suspensions**
**Lump Sums – **
**Child Support Enforcement Agencies can notify employers**

## e-IWO

**The anticipated benefits are: **
**Increased collections**
**Cost effective**
**Increased efficiency**
**Next Steps**
**e-IWO Users Guide**
**National implementation**

## e-IWO	

**Questions about e-IWO? **
**	****Contact Bill Stuart:**
**Email:  william.k.stuart@lmco.com**

## Revision of the Income Withholding Order (IWO)

## Revision of the IWO

**Income Withholding Order is the most effective means of collecting child support.**
**Standard OMB Income Withholding Order form expires **May 31, 2007**.**
**OCSE is establishing a workgroup for the revision process.**

## Revision of the IWO

**Comments or ideas on revising the ****IWO form? ****Contact Robyn Large:**
**Email:  rlarge@acf.hhs.gov**

## Multistate Employer Registration Letters

## Multistate Employer Registration Letters

**What is New Hire Reporting?**
**New Hire Reporting is the process by which you, as an employer, report information on your newly hired employees to a designated state agency shortly after the date of hire. **

## Multistate Employer Registration Letters

**What is the benefit of new hire information?**
**New hire reports are matched against child support records at the state and national levels to locate parents who owe child support. **
**With New Hire Reporting, state child support enforcement agencies have the ability to issue IWOs more quickly.**

## Multistate Employer Registration Letters

**Multistate Employers**
**A multistate employer hires and employs people in two or more states and conducts business within each state.**

## Multistate Employer Registration Letters

**Multistate employers may select one of the following reporting options:**
**Report newly-hired employees to the various states in which they are working.**
**Select one state where employees are working and report all new hires to that state's designated New Hire Reporting office. **

## Multistate Employer Registration Letters

**All multistate employers reporting to one state must register with HHS.**
**Letters to be sent to 61,000 unregistered employers.**
**Approximately 28,000 letters have been sent to registered multistate employers for updated information.**

## Multistate Employer Registration Letters

**Questions about Multistate Employer Registration? ****Contact Lynnetta Thompson:**
**Email:  lthompson@acf.hhs.gov**

## Employer Services Website

**www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/index.html**
**Click on: Information for Employers**

## Employer Services Website

## Employer Services Website

## Employer Services Website

## Employer Services Website

## How Can an Employer ask OCSE a Question about Child Support?

**Log on to OCSE Homepage  ****http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cse/**
**Click on **_**Information for Employers**_
**Click on **_**Frequently Asked Questions**_** in the right column**

## How Can an Employer Ask OCSE a Question about Child Support?

**Click on any topic area**
**The employer can either review the list of FAQs to see if the question has already been asked and answered or #1 tells them: **_**How can I ask a question if I don’t see it on the list?  **_

**Anne Gould**
**Manager, Employer Services**
**Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement**