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December 23, 2005

Families Will Lose $8.4 Billion in Uncollected Support If Federal Matching Funds for Child Support Incentive Payments Are Eliminated

The House spending reconciliation bill included deep cuts in federal funding for child support enforcement. There were two major cuts in funding — a cut in the overall federal match rate in the program and a prohibition on receiving federal matching payments when they reinvest their child support performance incentive payments in the child support program.

Posted by Gary Holden at December 23, 2005 8:56 AM