82-508.4 apparently conflicts with the statute by requiring that the county welfare office be responsible for disbursing the disregard payment to the family. 57 Business day is defined as any day the local child support agency is open for business. The Unreimbursed Assistance Pool is reduced by any disregard and pass-on payments made to the family. Counties are required to provide custodial parents with monthly statements of support payments collected. If the family can afford to do so, it might be advantageous to go off aid in any month where the child support received is substantial, but still less than the grant amount, so as to avoid the 60-month limit on CalWORKs benefits.
Business day is defined as any day the local child support agency is open for business.
The following discussion applies to amounts collected after September of 1998. Amounts collected before October of 1998 are governed by former federal law since California elected to change the order of distribution in 1998 and not in 1997 and 2000. Under former federal law, the family received its current support first, but did not receive any arrears until after all AFDC has been reimbursed. 80 Code Civ. Federal law has since been amended to grant that permission.