Monday, March 30, 2009
WHY SHOULD LARRY MCKEOWN NOT BE STANDING IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE?
We admit that being a Program Manager of a state agency is a difficult job with huge responsibilities. Still, in our opinion, someone needs to seriously consider whether Larry McKeown should be standing in the unemployment line.
Look, the guy gets paid $99,971 per year to run the South Carolina Child Support Enforcement Division. And it is a mess. For example:
- South Carolina has one of the lowest child support collection rates in the country;
- South Carolina is the ONLY State in the country that lacks a computerized child support tracking and distribution system and has been fined over $60 Million by the the United States for this failure;
- The CSED website is out of date and contains at least some misstatements of the Law;
- The CSED is unable to locate the child support collection agencies for the States of Alabama, Maryland and Pennsylvania; and,
- The total child support arrearage in South Carolina has increased from $700 Million in 2005 to $1.2 Billion at present.
If the buck does not stop with Mr. McKeown, where does it stop?
Labels: Child Support Collection, Computerized Child Support System, Family Court Reform, Federal Fines, Institutional Mismanagement
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. . . Silly rabbit, government employees don't get laid off only private sector folks do.
# posted by 
: 9:53 AM
: 9:53 AM
Agency and department heads all over the country are being terminated for mismanagement. It's a new world. The worsening economy brings added scrutiny to waste and fraud in government. If you want speed up the process contact your Legislators.
Some new world. That's how we got a guy that cheated on his taxes to be head of the Dept of Treasury and IRS. Oh, but that's the federal government, not state.
# posted by : 1:56 PM
: 1:56 PM
Our point was only that hard economic times are causing ordinary citizens to take a closer look at how their taxes are being spent. In this case, the issue becomes whether South Carolina can afford to continue to pay $10 Million a year in fines and, if not, what to do about it. Eveyone else in the country has a computerized child support tracking and collection system--even Alabama and Mississippi. If the head of the CSE Division cannot get this problem solved, shouldn't the State find someone who can? Are you with us on this? Or are we just obtuse?
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