Nearly 1.4 million families benefited from these collections. We make no apologies for using tough measures, but we also are striving to help those parents who can't meet their responsibilities find the means to do so.
Every child deserves the financial and emotional support of both parents.
These teams include representatives from the HHS Office of Inspector General and Office of Child Support Enforcement and from the Department of Justice, state child support agencies and local law enforcement organizations. As a result of the successes of these multiagency teams in identifying and catching those seriously delinquent in their payments, more children than ever before are getting the help they need. Under the federal tax offset program, state child support agencies report names of parents who owe child support payments and the overdue amount to the HHS Administration for Children and Families. These individuals are first notified by the state in a pre-offset letter of their overdue child support obligation. This gives them the opportunity to have their case reviewed for correctness before final submission to the U.S Treasury Department for action.