Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5101:9 - ODJFS Practices › Chapter 5101:9-6 - Allocations › Section 5101:9-6-80 - State child support allocations

Current through all regulations
			 passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) The Ohio department of job and family
			 services (ODJFS) issues state child support allocations to assist in provision
			 of the non-federal share of allowable administrative program expenditures
			 incurred in administration of the Title IV-D program. Additional non-federal
			 share of funds is supplied by funds appropriated by the county commissioners
			 from the county general fund or non Title IV-D program income and non Title
			 IV-D fees.
(B) State child support
			 allocations are distributed to the child support enforcement agency (CSEA)
			 designated by the board of county commissioners pursuant to sections
			 329.40 and
			 3125.10 of the Revised Code.
			 Failure to comply with the requirement of operating a
			  Title IV-D child support enforcement
			 agency will result in the county not receiving state child support
			 allocations.
(C) ODJFS issues state
			 child support allocations on a state fiscal year (SFY) basis. ODJFS
			 communicates the funding and liquidation period for this allocation through the
			 county finance information system (CFIS). The CSEA must expend funds by the end
			 of the funding period and disburse and report expenditures no later than the
			 end of the liquidation period.
(D)
			 Methodology.
State child support funding shall be allocated using the
				following methodology:
(1) Ten per
			 cent of the statewide amount shall be allocated evenly among all counties as a
			 base amount;
(2) The remaining
			 ninety per cent of the statewide amount shall be allocated based on the ratio
			 of county performance for each category in this paragraph compared to the
			 statewide performance for the same category, as reported on the most recent
			 OCSE-157, "Child Support Enforcement Annual Data Report" (OCSE-157).
The OCSE-157, "Child Support Enforcement Annual Data Report"
				(2014) can be found at:
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/css/resource/ocse-157-form-and-instructions
.
(a) Twenty per cent shall be allocated to
			 each county based upon their percentage of children with paternity established,
			 derived by dividing the number of the county's children with paternity
			 established by the statewide number of children with paternity established, as
			 reported on line six of the OCSE-157 for the most recent federal fiscal year
			 (FFY);
(b) Twenty per cent shall be
			 allocated to each county based upon their percentage of cases with a support
			 order established, derived by dividing the number of the county's cases with a
			 support order established by the statewide number of cases with a support order
			 established, as reported on line two of the OCSE-157 for the most recent
			 FFY;
(c) Thirty-five per cent shall
			 be allocated to each county based upon their percentage of dollars allocated to
			 current support, derived by dividing the amount of dollars allocated to current
			 support on the county's cases by the amount of dollars allocated to current
			 support statewide, as reported on line twenty-five of the OCSE-157 for the most
			 recent FFY; and
(d) Fifteen per
			 cent shall be allocated to each county based upon their percentage of cases
			 with an allocation to arrearages, derived by dividing the number of the
			 county's cases with an allocation to arrearages by the statewide number of
			 cases with an allocation to arrearages, as reported on line twenty-nine of the
			 OCSE-157 for the most recent FFY.
(3) Where a CSEA encompasses multiple
			 counties, the CSEA receives the allocations for each county represented under
			 the CSEA.