http://www.mississippifamilylawblog....es_custod.html

Sept. 16, 2007
Mississippi DHS charges custodial parent fee for collecting child
support
Custodial parent says fee for collecting child support unfair

In an story out of Meridian, Mississippi, a mother received a letter
from the Mississippi Department of Human Services charging her a $25
fee for collecting child support. Under federal law, the fee is
charged when DHS is successful in recovering child support where the
custodial parent has not received public assistance.

The fee is nominal in comparison to the taxpayer dollars spent
collecting the child support, but the question becomes why the fee is
not charged to the non-custodial parent who owed the child support.
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http://www.wnbc.com/news/14191333/detail.html

Sept. 24, 2007
Rell Cancels Plan To Charge Custodial Parents For Child Support

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Governor Rell says she's telling the state
officials to cancel plans to deduct a $25 annual fee from about 15,000
child support checks sent to custodial parents.

The Hartford Courant reported that the state Department of Social
Services would start deducting the fee next month. The federal
government instituted the fee to help fund child support enforcement
efforts.

But Rell says charging the fees to custodial parents makes no sense
and so the state will pay the federal fees out of its own coffers
instead.

Rell says the state will send an estimated $350,000 to $400,000 a year
to the federal government to cover the fees.
They affect only parents who receive at least $500 of child support
through the state's enforcement program. Parents on public assistance
are exempt.
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Ah yes, we should have known that charging something - even $2.09 a
month for services they're using to rake in unearned, tax-free dough
- to custodial parents makes no sense.