Open Child Support Enforcement Functions to Competition Texas should increase child support collections by contracting for certain child support enforcement functions. About one in every five Texas children should receive support through the state's child support enforcement program.
Some counties have separate child support programs as well.
Key performance measures indicate that OAG's operations have improved over the last few years, producing more child support and more court orders for support. Texas increased its child support collections more than any of the other ten largest states in 1993 and 1994. The number of new cases of Texas children who need child support but do not receive it continues to increase by about 15,000 per month, yet OAG's child support program cannot handle many more cases. As of May 1996, about 478,000 cases or 55 percent of all cases did not have court orders for child support. The number of unobligated and non-paying obligated cases continues to increase.