Over half the states have met the 1988 challenge and the nation's child support numbers are improving. Our accomplishments are substantial, yet a truly significant effort still faces us. A Fundamentally Sound Premise Arizona has found that Congress vision of a single, statewide system for the processing of child support cases to be an extremely sound one. Virtually every improvement in Arizona child support enforcement has been enhanced because of the single system concept. All parties have benefited from Arizonas statewide system.
Children benefit from increased financial support and information about both biological parents.
Taxpayers benefit by limiting the need for public assistance to be paid to families. The state and federal governments benefit from cost effective use of limited technical resources and economies of scale. A single database of unduplicated CPs and NCPs has improved our ability to work cases timely and efficiently. In mass and automatically, we can locate and verify individuals names, social security numbers, addresses, employers and assets. This information is provided, to all cases with which these individuals have a relationship, to every caseworker assigned to these cases, simultaneously.