I need to know how much the Federal Government pays each state in the
form of incentive funds for child support collections.
I need the dollar amount for each state, what that amount is based on,
the amount of expenses each state claimed, how much each state
collected for both welfare and non-welfare collections, and the
percentage rate for each state of never been late.
I have found the information for California on the Governors proposed
budget page, but I am having trouble finding it on other states sites.
I know there are specitalty sites that already have this information,
but I don't know where they are or how to access them, nor do I have
the time to do the research.
Hefty tip involved for providing this information. Basically, each
state has to submit this information to the feds for payment of
incentive funding. I need to know the data underlying the payment.
HUGE tip if you can tell me for each state (heck for any state) the
breakdown of child support, family support, and spousal support. |
Request for Question Clarification by
hummer-ga
on
26 Mar 2005 12:01 PST
Hi mrdacmalma,
The question that you have posted is very complex and so I've decided
to post what I've found so far to get some feedback from you. Please
let me know what you think.
1) I was able to find a website which gives the 2003 federal incentive
payments, here are two examples:
Colorado
Federal incentive payments: $5,000,000
Performance on federal incentives:
Paternity Establishment Percentage: 94.2%
Cases with support orders: 84.7%
Collections on current support: 55.2%
Collections on arrears: 63.9%
Cost-effectiveness: $3.17
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cyf/coprogram.htm#funding
Oklahoma
Federal incentive payments: $3,000,000
Performance on Federal Incentives:
Paternity Establishment Percentage: 92.58%
Cases with support orders: 70.80%
Collections on current support: 48.44%
Collections on arrears: 57.39%
Cost-effectiveness: $3.13
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cyf/okprogram.htm#funding
2) In regards to "I need to know the data underlying the payment", is
the following what you are looking for (click on link for full
details)?
§ 658a. Incentive payments to States
"(a) In general In addition to any other payment under this part, the
Secretary shall, subject to subsection (f) of this section, make an
incentive payment to each State for each fiscal year in an amount
determined under subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Amount of incentive payment
(1) In general
The incentive payment for a State for a fiscal year is equal to the
incentive payment pool for the fiscal year, multiplied by the State
incentive payment share for the fiscal year...."
http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00000658---a000-.html
3) A good site for State Allocation:
Cost Allocation for State Systems Toolkit
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/stsys/tab10.htm
I will look forward to your reply,
hummer
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
26 Mar 2005 14:27 PST
First off, please provide us a link to the California data you already
found, so we can look it over and familiarize ourselves with what you
are after.
Secondly -- if I am reading things properly -- the data underlying the
incentives payment program can be found in this CSEA annual report:
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cse/pubs/2004/reports/preliminary_data/index.html#appendix
Child Support Enforcement FY 2003 Preliminary Data Report
June 2004
In particular, the section titled "Summary Tables" includes a lot of
state by state data. For example:
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cse/pubs/2004/reports/preliminary_data/table_5.html
Table 5: Total Collections Made by Method of Collection, FY 2003
The Appendix contains the incentive formulas themselves:
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cse/pubs/2004/reports/preliminary_data/index.html
CSPIA Incentive Measure Formulas
An earlier report actually spelled out the incentive payments to each
state up until 1998, but this sort of straightforward summary of the
data no longer seems to be readily available:
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cse/rpt/annrpt23/tables/TABLE13.htm
TABLE 13
Child Support Enforcement Twenty-Third Annual Report to Congress
INCENTIVE PAYMENTS ACTUALS FOR FIVE CONSECUTIVE FISCAL YEARS
As noted earlier, this is a highly complex program, even by federal
government statndards, so I'm no certain I've identified all the
relevant data sources.
Please give us your feedback regarding these links, in terms of their
relevance, and most importantly, in terms of what additional
information you are still in need of.
Thanks,
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
mrdacmalma-ga
on
26 Mar 2005 15:09 PST
The data you have provided is close, but not complete. It does not
break out welfare vs never welfare collections. What I am trying to
do is calculate the actual cost of the collections, not just the
processing of never late payments by non custodial parents who always
pay and don't actually require enforcement.
So, the california data is here:
ftp://ftpgovbud.dof.ca.gov/pub/GovernorsBudget/4000/5175_fig1f.pdf
I need similar information from all 50 states. Also, bonus for
information about how much of the collections was from non custodial
parents who have never been late.
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Clarification of Question by
mrdacmalma-ga
on
26 Mar 2005 17:54 PST
The links you provided show me that you understand the question, but
here's the problem, all that data is the result of a compilation of
the data I am looking for.
I need the raw figures of each state, how much they spent, on what
(administration, court costs, investigation, etc), how much was
reimbursed, what the collections dollar amounts were for three
segments- welfare, former welfare, never welfare; and two components
of each-with arrearages and no arrearages. My concern is that the
relevant statistics are not being kept at a national level and are
only available at each states website someplace.
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