Deadbeat States Of The Month-All Of Them!

Whoa - $660 million in child support collected from NCPs has not been
distributed?

Dats a lotta munny!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98973,00.html

----------------------------------------------

(Reproduced for educational purposes only)

State-Collected Child Support Not Reaching Beneficiaries

Friday, October 03, 2003
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to know why nearly $660
million in child support payments collected by states in 2002 never
reached the people for whom it was intended.

"This is a problem," said Sen. Chuck Grassley (search), D-Iowa, chair of
the Senate Finance Committee.

Grassley is backing a provision in the pending Senate version of the
Welfare Reform Act (search) reauthorization bill that would hold states
accountable for their undistributed child support funds.

He has also asked the General Accounting Office (search) to conduct an
audit of the state enforcement program in an attempt to discover why kids
aren't receiving the money collected on their behalf.

"Studies have shown that single parents who leave welfare are three times
more likely to return to welfare if they don’t get the child support they
are owed," Grassley told Foxnews.com.

Several states have recognized the problem and are taking steps to reduce
the sums of money they are holding.

But those familiar with the state systems say clogged and largely
unfeeling bureaucracies have not only rendered the systems ineffective in
many states, but have forced custodial parents to play detective to get
the payments owed to their children.

"It’s just outrageous," said Geraldine Jensen, president of the
Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (search). "If a bank
behaved this way it would go out of business."

The floating funds have also resulted in a lot of ill will. While the $660
million accounts for less than 5 percent of the total collected on average
each year by the states, parents say the sum doesn’t matter when it means
they are forced to pester the state for every nickel and dime.

"It’s a big hardship on the parents, but more importantly the children,
they are the ones who ultimately pay," said Maryland resident Kimberly
Dawkins, who got involved with ACES after her son was born and she was
forced to pursue his father for child support.

Dawkins blames inefficiency and a lack of urgency on behalf of the
Maryland Department of Human Resources (search), which handles child
support enforcement.

"It’s the mentality of the agency - it’s just not a priority," she said.
"But it can literally mean the difference between paying the mortgage and
giving your child a decent meal at night."

According to Brian Shey, executive director of child support enforcement
services for Maryland, which collected $438 million in payments last
year, the state is holding about $3 million in undistributed funds.

"We don’t want to hold this money at all," said Norris West, a spokesman
for the Maryland agency.

Officials say the reasons are complex - much of the money is sitting there
legitimately, mostly due to the relocation of parents and failure to
provide a forwarding address.

"On balance, almost all child support collected is distributed to the
families within 48 hours - that’s the big picture here, - Shey said,
noting that Maryland reduced its undistributed funds by $1 million from
the previous year after intensifying searches for families who had moved
and encouraging parents to get direct deposit for support checks.

States report that money may also be withheld for legal reasons, like when
paternity or other disputes are being litigated. States also have an
obligation to hold money temporarily when it comes from federal
withholding taxes so that new spouses can lay claim to any of the return.
Sometimes, checks or money orders come in that cannot be readily matched
to existing cases.

"Sometimes there is a good reason, and sometimes there’s no good reason,"
said Nick Young, a spokesman for the Virginia Child Enforcement Services
(search), which was credited by ACES for bringing its own undistributed
funds down from $15 million to $2 million over the last few years.

"The bottom line is we all put our minds to it," he said.

About $18,000 of the $5.4 million that moves through VCES on any given day
is considered "bad, undistributed funds" because officials truly cannot
figure out where the money belongs.

"If anything, we’ll send it back. I don’t want to keep it," Young said.

Janece Keetch, spokeswoman for the Texas attorney general’s office, which
handles enforcement in that state, said that in 1999 the state held $21
million. Finding that sum "unacceptable," Texas embarked on streamlining
the system and being more aggressive in tracking down custodial parents.

In doing so, she said, they brought that figure down to about $2 million -
0.7 percent of the total child payments that Texas collects.

"We’re aggressively working these cases because we do not want to hold the
money," Keetch said. "The battle cry is to get the money to the children
where it belongs."

But not everyone is convinced that every state is doing its best to ensure
the money reaches its destination. The House, too, has included in its
Welfare Reform Act reauthorization bill a provision that will require
states to report their annual undistributed funds along with an
explanation why the funds are being held and what is being done to get the
payments moving in the right direction.

"Until we step up and try to get the states more concerned and focused on
this issue, I don’t think there is a high level of confidence that it will
be any different than it is today," said Nick Gwyn, spokesman for Rep. Ben
Cardin, D-Md.

"We need to start by figuring out how big the problem is, and what steps
need to be taken to remedy it," Gwyn said.

Richard Paige, a child support enforcement director with the Tennessee
Department of Human Services, which had $14 million in undistributed funds
out of $414 million in collected payments in the fiscal year ending in
June, said his agency welcomes the government’s inquiries as the
department tries to improve its system.

"There’s a lot of pressure at the national level to reduce the level of
undistributed funds," Paige said. "We were going down that road already."
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--
" I'm a man... But, I can change... If I have to... I guess. "
The Man Prayer, Red Green.

"Andre Lieven" wrote in message
...
Whoa - $660 million in child support collected from NCPs has not been
distributed?

Dats a lotta munny!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98973,00.html

----------------------------------------------

(Reproduced for educational purposes only)

State-Collected Child Support Not Reaching Beneficiaries

Friday, October 03, 2003
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to know why nearly $660
million in child support payments collected by states in 2002 never
reached the people for whom it was intended.

"This is a problem," said Sen. Chuck Grassley (search), D-Iowa, chair of
the Senate Finance Committee.

Grassley is backing a provision in the pending Senate version of the
Welfare Reform Act (search) reauthorization bill that would hold states
accountable for their undistributed child support funds.

He has also asked the General Accounting Office (search) to conduct an
audit of the state enforcement program in an attempt to discover why kids
aren't receiving the money collected on their behalf.

"Studies have shown that single parents who leave welfare are three times
more likely to return to welfare if they don't get the child support they
are owed," Grassley told Foxnews.com.
==
Now there's a study I'd like to see.
==
==

"Andre Lieven" wrote in message
...
Whoa - $660 million in child support collected from NCPs has not been
distributed?

Dats a lotta munny!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98973,00.html

----------------------------------------------

(Reproduced for educational purposes only)

State-Collected Child Support Not Reaching Beneficiaries

Friday, October 03, 2003
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to know why nearly $660
million in child support payments collected by states in 2002 never
reached the people for whom it was intended.

"This is a problem," said Sen. Chuck Grassley (search), D-Iowa, chair of
the Senate Finance Committee.

Grassley is backing a provision in the pending Senate version of the
Welfare Reform Act (search) reauthorization bill that would hold states
accountable for their undistributed child support funds.

He has also asked the General Accounting Office (search) to conduct an
audit of the state enforcement program in an attempt to discover why kids
aren't receiving the money collected on their behalf.

"Studies have shown that single parents who leave welfare are three times
more likely to return to welfare if they don't get the child support they
are owed," Grassley told Foxnews.com.
==
Now there's a study I'd like to see.
==
==

"Andre Lieven" wrote in message
...
Whoa - $660 million in child support collected from NCPs has not been
distributed?

Dats a lotta munny!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98973,00.html

----------------------------------------------

(Reproduced for educational purposes only)

State-Collected Child Support Not Reaching Beneficiaries

Friday, October 03, 2003
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to know why nearly $660
million in child support payments collected by states in 2002 never
reached the people for whom it was intended.

"This is a problem," said Sen. Chuck Grassley (search), D-Iowa, chair of
the Senate Finance Committee.

Grassley is backing a provision in the pending Senate version of the
Welfare Reform Act (search) reauthorization bill that would hold states
accountable for their undistributed child support funds.

He has also asked the General Accounting Office (search) to conduct an
audit of the state enforcement program in an attempt to discover why kids
aren't receiving the money collected on their behalf.

"Studies have shown that single parents who leave welfare are three times
more likely to return to welfare if they don't get the child support they
are owed," Grassley told Foxnews.com.
==
Now there's a study I'd like to see.
==
==

The senator apparently suffers under the delusion...

Andre Lieven wrote:

Whoa - $660 million in child support collected from NCPs has not been
distributed?

Dats a lotta munny!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98973,00.html

----------------------------------------------

(Reproduced for educational purposes only)

State-Collected Child Support Not Reaching Beneficiaries

Friday, October 03, 2003
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to know why nearly $660
million in child support payments collected by states in 2002 never
reached the people for whom it was intended.

"This is a problem," said Sen. Chuck Grassley (search), D-Iowa, chair of
the Senate Finance Committee.

Grassley is backing a provision in the pending Senate version of the
Welfare Reform Act (search) reauthorization bill that would hold states
accountable for their undistributed child support funds.

He has also asked the General Accounting Office (search) to conduct an
audit of the state enforcement program in an attempt to discover why kids
aren't receiving the money collected on their behalf.

.... that the money is actually supposed to go to kids...

"Studies have shown that single parents who leave welfare are three times
more likely to return to welfare if they don’t get the child support they
are owed," Grassley told Foxnews.com.

Sounds like "welfare to work" is turning into "welfare to that OTHER
TEAT"...

Several states have recognized the problem and are taking steps to reduce
the sums of money they are holding.

But those familiar with the state systems say clogged and largely
unfeeling bureaucracies have not only rendered the systems ineffective in
many states, but have forced custodial parents to play detective to get
the payments owed to their children.

"It’s just outrageous," said Geraldine Jensen, president of the
Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (search). "If a bank
behaved this way it would go out of business."

If a bank behaved the way the CS industry behaves, you wouldn't be able
to afford it's stock....

The floating funds have also resulted in a lot of ill will. While the $660
million accounts for less than 5 percent of the total collected on average
each year by the states, parents say the sum doesn’t matter when it means
they are forced to pester the state for every nickel and dime.

Which is, of course, easier than working for real dollars....

"It’s a big hardship on the parents, but more importantly the children,
they are the ones who ultimately pay," said Maryland resident Kimberly
Dawkins, who got involved with ACES after her son was born and she was
forced to pursue his father for child support.

"FORCED"????

Dawkins blames inefficiency and a lack of urgency on behalf of the
Maryland Department of Human Resources (search), which handles child
support enforcement.

"It’s the mentality of the agency - it’s just not a priority," she said.
"But it can literally mean the difference between paying the mortgage and
giving your child a decent meal at night."

Maybe she should rent....

According to Brian Shey, executive director of child support enforcement
services for Maryland, which collected $438 million in payments last
year, the state is holding about $3 million in undistributed funds.

"We don’t want to hold this money at all," said Norris West, a spokesman
for the Maryland agency.

Officials say the reasons are complex - much of the money is sitting there
legitimately, mostly due to the relocation of parents and failure to
provide a forwarding address.

"On balance, almost all child support collected is distributed to the
families within 48 hours - that’s the big picture here, - Shey said,
noting that Maryland reduced its undistributed funds by $1 million from
the previous year after intensifying searches for families who had moved
and encouraging parents to get direct deposit for support checks.

States report that money may also be withheld for legal reasons, like when
paternity or other disputes are being litigated.

So if you're not sure you can give it to the mother, why-the-hell are
you so damn sure you should be collecting it from somebody who may not
be the father??????

States also have an
obligation to hold money temporarily when it comes from federal
withholding taxes so that new spouses can lay claim to any of the return.
Sometimes, checks or money orders come in that cannot be readily matched
to existing cases.

"Sometimes there is a good reason, and sometimes there’s no good reason,"
said Nick Young, a spokesman for the Virginia Child Enforcement Services
(search), which was credited by ACES for bringing its own undistributed
funds down from $15 million to $2 million over the last few years.

"The bottom line is we all put our minds to it," he said.

About $18,000 of the $5.4 million that moves through VCES on any given day
is considered "bad, undistributed funds" because officials truly cannot
figure out where the money belongs.

"If anything, we’ll send it back. I don’t want to keep it," Young said.

Janece Keetch, spokeswoman for the Texas attorney general’s office, which
handles enforcement in that state, said that in 1999 the state held $21
million. Finding that sum "unacceptable," Texas embarked on streamlining
the system and being more aggressive in tracking down custodial parents.

In doing so, she said, they brought that figure down to about $2 million -
0.7 percent of the total child payments that Texas collects.

"We’re aggressively working these cases because we do not want to hold the
money," Keetch said. "The battle cry is to get the money to the children
where it belongs."

She is also suffering under the delusion...or just plain misleading the
public...

Mel Gamble

But not everyone is convinced that every state is doing its best to ensure
the money reaches its destination. The House, too, has included in its
Welfare Reform Act reauthorization bill a provision that will require
states to report their annual undistributed funds along with an
explanation why the funds are being held and what is being done to get the
payments moving in the right direction.

"Until we step up and try to get the states more concerned and focused on
this issue, I don’t think there is a high level of confidence that it will
be any different than it is today," said Nick Gwyn, spokesman for Rep. Ben
Cardin, D-Md.

"We need to start by figuring out how big the problem is, and what steps
need to be taken to remedy it," Gwyn said.

Richard Paige, a child support enforcement director with the Tennessee
Department of Human Services, which had $14 million in undistributed funds
out of $414 million in collected payments in the fiscal year ending in
June, said his agency welcomes the government’s inquiries as the
department tries to improve its system.

"There’s a lot of pressure at the national level to reduce the level of
undistributed funds," Paige said. "We were going down that road already."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


--
" I'm a man... But, I can change... If I have to... I guess. "
The Man Prayer, Red Green.

The senator apparently suffers under the delusion...

Andre Lieven wrote:

Whoa - $660 million in child support collected from NCPs has not been
distributed?

Dats a lotta munny!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98973,00.html

----------------------------------------------

(Reproduced for educational purposes only)

State-Collected Child Support Not Reaching Beneficiaries

Friday, October 03, 2003
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to know why nearly $660
million in child support payments collected by states in 2002 never
reached the people for whom it was intended.

"This is a problem," said Sen. Chuck Grassley (search), D-Iowa, chair of
the Senate Finance Committee.

Grassley is backing a provision in the pending Senate version of the
Welfare Reform Act (search) reauthorization bill that would hold states
accountable for their undistributed child support funds.

He has also asked the General Accounting Office (search) to conduct an
audit of the state enforcement program in an attempt to discover why kids
aren't receiving the money collected on their behalf.

.... that the money is actually supposed to go to kids...

"Studies have shown that single parents who leave welfare are three times
more likely to return to welfare if they don’t get the child support they
are owed," Grassley told Foxnews.com.

Sounds like "welfare to work" is turning into "welfare to that OTHER
TEAT"...

Several states have recognized the problem and are taking steps to reduce
the sums of money they are holding.

But those familiar with the state systems say clogged and largely
unfeeling bureaucracies have not only rendered the systems ineffective in
many states, but have forced custodial parents to play detective to get
the payments owed to their children.

"It’s just outrageous," said Geraldine Jensen, president of the
Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (search). "If a bank
behaved this way it would go out of business."

If a bank behaved the way the CS industry behaves, you wouldn't be able
to afford it's stock....

The floating funds have also resulted in a lot of ill will. While the $660
million accounts for less than 5 percent of the total collected on average
each year by the states, parents say the sum doesn’t matter when it means
they are forced to pester the state for every nickel and dime.

Which is, of course, easier than working for real dollars....

"It’s a big hardship on the parents, but more importantly the children,
they are the ones who ultimately pay," said Maryland resident Kimberly
Dawkins, who got involved with ACES after her son was born and she was
forced to pursue his father for child support.

"FORCED"????

Dawkins blames inefficiency and a lack of urgency on behalf of the
Maryland Department of Human Resources (search), which handles child
support enforcement.

"It’s the mentality of the agency - it’s just not a priority," she said.
"But it can literally mean the difference between paying the mortgage and
giving your child a decent meal at night."

Maybe she should rent....

According to Brian Shey, executive director of child support enforcement
services for Maryland, which collected $438 million in payments last
year, the state is holding about $3 million in undistributed funds.

"We don’t want to hold this money at all," said Norris West, a spokesman
for the Maryland agency.

Officials say the reasons are complex - much of the money is sitting there
legitimately, mostly due to the relocation of parents and failure to
provide a forwarding address.

"On balance, almost all child support collected is distributed to the
families within 48 hours - that’s the big picture here, - Shey said,
noting that Maryland reduced its undistributed funds by $1 million from
the previous year after intensifying searches for families who had moved
and encouraging parents to get direct deposit for support checks.

States report that money may also be withheld for legal reasons, like when
paternity or other disputes are being litigated.

So if you're not sure you can give it to the mother, why-the-hell are
you so damn sure you should be collecting it from somebody who may not
be the father??????

States also have an
obligation to hold money temporarily when it comes from federal
withholding taxes so that new spouses can lay claim to any of the return.
Sometimes, checks or money orders come in that cannot be readily matched
to existing cases.

"Sometimes there is a good reason, and sometimes there’s no good reason,"
said Nick Young, a spokesman for the Virginia Child Enforcement Services
(search), which was credited by ACES for bringing its own undistributed
funds down from $15 million to $2 million over the last few years.

"The bottom line is we all put our minds to it," he said.

About $18,000 of the $5.4 million that moves through VCES on any given day
is considered "bad, undistributed funds" because officials truly cannot
figure out where the money belongs.

"If anything, we’ll send it back. I don’t want to keep it," Young said.

Janece Keetch, spokeswoman for the Texas attorney general’s office, which
handles enforcement in that state, said that in 1999 the state held $21
million. Finding that sum "unacceptable," Texas embarked on streamlining
the system and being more aggressive in tracking down custodial parents.

In doing so, she said, they brought that figure down to about $2 million -
0.7 percent of the total child payments that Texas collects.

"We’re aggressively working these cases because we do not want to hold the
money," Keetch said. "The battle cry is to get the money to the children
where it belongs."

She is also suffering under the delusion...or just plain misleading the
public...

Mel Gamble

But not everyone is convinced that every state is doing its best to ensure
the money reaches its destination. The House, too, has included in its
Welfare Reform Act reauthorization bill a provision that will require
states to report their annual undistributed funds along with an
explanation why the funds are being held and what is being done to get the
payments moving in the right direction.

"Until we step up and try to get the states more concerned and focused on
this issue, I don’t think there is a high level of confidence that it will
be any different than it is today," said Nick Gwyn, spokesman for Rep. Ben
Cardin, D-Md.

"We need to start by figuring out how big the problem is, and what steps
need to be taken to remedy it," Gwyn said.

Richard Paige, a child support enforcement director with the Tennessee
Department of Human Services, which had $14 million in undistributed funds
out of $414 million in collected payments in the fiscal year ending in
June, said his agency welcomes the government’s inquiries as the
department tries to improve its system.

"There’s a lot of pressure at the national level to reduce the level of
undistributed funds," Paige said. "We were going down that road already."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


--
" I'm a man... But, I can change... If I have to... I guess. "
The Man Prayer, Red Green.

The senator apparently suffers under the delusion...

Andre Lieven wrote:

Whoa - $660 million in child support collected from NCPs has not been
distributed?

Dats a lotta munny!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98973,00.html

----------------------------------------------

(Reproduced for educational purposes only)

State-Collected Child Support Not Reaching Beneficiaries

Friday, October 03, 2003
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to know why nearly $660
million in child support payments collected by states in 2002 never
reached the people for whom it was intended.

"This is a problem," said Sen. Chuck Grassley (search), D-Iowa, chair of
the Senate Finance Committee.

Grassley is backing a provision in the pending Senate version of the
Welfare Reform Act (search) reauthorization bill that would hold states
accountable for their undistributed child support funds.

He has also asked the General Accounting Office (search) to conduct an
audit of the state enforcement program in an attempt to discover why kids
aren't receiving the money collected on their behalf.

.... that the money is actually supposed to go to kids...

"Studies have shown that single parents who leave welfare are three times
more likely to return to welfare if they don’t get the child support they
are owed," Grassley told Foxnews.com.

Sounds like "welfare to work" is turning into "welfare to that OTHER
TEAT"...

Several states have recognized the problem and are taking steps to reduce
the sums of money they are holding.

But those familiar with the state systems say clogged and largely
unfeeling bureaucracies have not only rendered the systems ineffective in
many states, but have forced custodial parents to play detective to get
the payments owed to their children.

"It’s just outrageous," said Geraldine Jensen, president of the
Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (search). "If a bank
behaved this way it would go out of business."

If a bank behaved the way the CS industry behaves, you wouldn't be able
to afford it's stock....

The floating funds have also resulted in a lot of ill will. While the $660
million accounts for less than 5 percent of the total collected on average
each year by the states, parents say the sum doesn’t matter when it means
they are forced to pester the state for every nickel and dime.

Which is, of course, easier than working for real dollars....

"It’s a big hardship on the parents, but more importantly the children,
they are the ones who ultimately pay," said Maryland resident Kimberly
Dawkins, who got involved with ACES after her son was born and she was
forced to pursue his father for child support.

"FORCED"????

Dawkins blames inefficiency and a lack of urgency on behalf of the
Maryland Department of Human Resources (search), which handles child
support enforcement.

"It’s the mentality of the agency - it’s just not a priority," she said.
"But it can literally mean the difference between paying the mortgage and
giving your child a decent meal at night."

Maybe she should rent....

According to Brian Shey, executive director of child support enforcement
services for Maryland, which collected $438 million in payments last
year, the state is holding about $3 million in undistributed funds.

"We don’t want to hold this money at all," said Norris West, a spokesman
for the Maryland agency.

Officials say the reasons are complex - much of the money is sitting there
legitimately, mostly due to the relocation of parents and failure to
provide a forwarding address.

"On balance, almost all child support collected is distributed to the
families within 48 hours - that’s the big picture here, - Shey said,
noting that Maryland reduced its undistributed funds by $1 million from
the previous year after intensifying searches for families who had moved
and encouraging parents to get direct deposit for support checks.

States report that money may also be withheld for legal reasons, like when
paternity or other disputes are being litigated.

So if you're not sure you can give it to the mother, why-the-hell are
you so damn sure you should be collecting it from somebody who may not
be the father??????

States also have an
obligation to hold money temporarily when it comes from federal
withholding taxes so that new spouses can lay claim to any of the return.
Sometimes, checks or money orders come in that cannot be readily matched
to existing cases.

"Sometimes there is a good reason, and sometimes there’s no good reason,"
said Nick Young, a spokesman for the Virginia Child Enforcement Services
(search), which was credited by ACES for bringing its own undistributed
funds down from $15 million to $2 million over the last few years.

"The bottom line is we all put our minds to it," he said.

About $18,000 of the $5.4 million that moves through VCES on any given day
is considered "bad, undistributed funds" because officials truly cannot
figure out where the money belongs.

"If anything, we’ll send it back. I don’t want to keep it," Young said.

Janece Keetch, spokeswoman for the Texas attorney general’s office, which
handles enforcement in that state, said that in 1999 the state held $21
million. Finding that sum "unacceptable," Texas embarked on streamlining
the system and being more aggressive in tracking down custodial parents.

In doing so, she said, they brought that figure down to about $2 million -
0.7 percent of the total child payments that Texas collects.

"We’re aggressively working these cases because we do not want to hold the
money," Keetch said. "The battle cry is to get the money to the children
where it belongs."

She is also suffering under the delusion...or just plain misleading the
public...

Mel Gamble

But not everyone is convinced that every state is doing its best to ensure
the money reaches its destination. The House, too, has included in its
Welfare Reform Act reauthorization bill a provision that will require
states to report their annual undistributed funds along with an
explanation why the funds are being held and what is being done to get the
payments moving in the right direction.

"Until we step up and try to get the states more concerned and focused on
this issue, I don’t think there is a high level of confidence that it will
be any different than it is today," said Nick Gwyn, spokesman for Rep. Ben
Cardin, D-Md.

"We need to start by figuring out how big the problem is, and what steps
need to be taken to remedy it," Gwyn said.

Richard Paige, a child support enforcement director with the Tennessee
Department of Human Services, which had $14 million in undistributed funds
out of $414 million in collected payments in the fiscal year ending in
June, said his agency welcomes the government’s inquiries as the
department tries to improve its system.

"There’s a lot of pressure at the national level to reduce the level of
undistributed funds," Paige said. "We were going down that road already."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


--
" I'm a man... But, I can change... If I have to... I guess. "
The Man Prayer, Red Green.