New orders reflecting parents' updated salary information will bring more child support to children who need it. The Administration's budget will contain a proposal that will ensure that more child support goes directly to families. Current child support distribution rules are complicated, and often result in government, not families, keeping child support monies paid by the father. Today's proposals will enable states to simplify distribution rules and provide incentives to states that pass through more child support payments directly to families. These proposals will create a clearer connection between what a father pays and what his family gets, giving parents more reason to cooperate with the child support system.
Fathers Work .
As part of this effort, states will need to put procedures in place allowing them to require more parents who owe child support to pay or go to work, expanding to include parents of children not on welfare. Families Win . These funds will leverage existing resources to help families retain jobs and upgrade skills, and get connected to critical work supports, such as child care, child support, health care, food stamps, housing, and transportation. Families Win grants will serve approximately 40,000 low-income families, including mothers and fathers, former welfare recipients, and people with disabilities. The new data show that efforts to track deadbeat parents across state lines are working - 2.8 million parents were located in the first two years of operation of the National Directory of New Hires, which matches child support orders to employment records.