Thursday, April 16, 2009
HOW DO SEVENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE MANAGE TO SECRET THEMSELVES IN A STATE THE SIZE OF SOUTH CAROLINA?
We do not know for certain, though we have a pretty good idea.
We do know for certain that The Post and Courier reported in 2005 "South Carolina parents owe more than $700 million in back child-support payments, with more than 70,000 people in the state dodging payments each year."
We also know for certain that the $700 Million arrearage figure reported three years ago has now ballooned to over $1.2 Billion, which leads us to believe that there are now substantially more than "70,000 people in the state dodging payments each year."
And we are pretty confident that the State's failure to either create a centralized computer child support tracking and enforcement system or to comply with 42 USC Sec. 653a has allowed people not only to hide in the open, but has also allowed them to avoid paying child support, to cheat on their income taxes, to successfully file false worker's compensation claims, and to illegally receive unemployment benefits. Still, those who want to know the definitive answer to the question of how seventy thousand people can secret themselves in a State the size of South Carolina--including those Freshmen Legislators who were recently demanding answers-- should contact Larry McKeown at either 1-800-768-5858 or Larry.McKeown@dss.sc.gov and pose the question to him. He gets paid $100,000 per year to know the answer to this and related questions. It is time that he earns his pay.
Labels: Child Support Collection, Computerized Child Support System, Dodging Child Support, Institutional Mismanagement, New Hire Reporting, Problems at DSS
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The longer this goes on, the harder it will be to fix. It's not cheap to integrate legacy computer systems, including those of poorer counties that may be years of decades behind the state of the art.
William Hamilton
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William Hamilton
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: 11:43 AM
: 11:43 AM
Every State in the United States other than South Carolina has managed to get this done. And South Carolina has already spent about $100 Million combined on the system itself and fines with another $30 Million in fines coming down the pike.
So why does SC have the same people running the show that have been running the show for the last ten years?
Have you ever been to Hale County Alabama? Williamsburg County South Carolina, though with a higher population and larger in size, is very similar to Hale County in per capita income and other demographic features. Yet Hale County is on the computer grid.
See,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale_County,_Alabama and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamsburg_County,_South_Carolina for a comparison.
South Carolina should worry less about trying to catch Alabama in football and more on trying to catch Alabama in things that matter.
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So why does SC have the same people running the show that have been running the show for the last ten years?
Have you ever been to Hale County Alabama? Williamsburg County South Carolina, though with a higher population and larger in size, is very similar to Hale County in per capita income and other demographic features. Yet Hale County is on the computer grid.
See,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale_County,_Alabama and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamsburg_County,_South_Carolina for a comparison.
South Carolina should worry less about trying to catch Alabama in football and more on trying to catch Alabama in things that matter.
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