Sunday, February 21, 2010
"DEADBEAT" TABS ADDING UP IN SOUTH CAROLINA
We read the post “Deadbeat” Tabs Adding Up and would like to comment on it.
For the readers' information, most of the current South Carolina child support arrearage accrued before the recession hit. And the reason that it accrued has less to do with the current high unemployment rate in South Carolina than it does with the mismanagement at DSS. Simply stated, if the folks at DSS had been doing their jobs, South Carolina would not have been fined $72,000,000 by the federal government with another $20,000,000 in fines expected to come. Nor would there be an arrearage in excess of $1,200,000,000. Nor would there be 70,000 South Carolinians dodging their child support obligations.
It would take us hours to explain the severity of the Mess at the South Carolina DSS, but those who want a little taste of the magnitude of the problems and their causes might want to read "DEADBEAT PARENTS" TARGETED IN SOUTH CAROLINA, CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE CAMPBELL MAY HAVE MISSED CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS, LINKS TO THE COMPLETE RESPONSES OF SC DSS TO BUDGET PROVISOS REGARDING COMPUTERIZED CHILD SUPPORT TRACKING AND COLLECTION SYSTEM, SOUTH CAROLINA CHILD (NON) SUPPORT--A CONTINUING PROBLEM, and THE MESS AT SC DSS--HOW THEY GOT THERE AND SOME THINGS TO DO ABOUT IT.
For the readers' information, most of the current South Carolina child support arrearage accrued before the recession hit. And the reason that it accrued has less to do with the current high unemployment rate in South Carolina than it does with the mismanagement at DSS. Simply stated, if the folks at DSS had been doing their jobs, South Carolina would not have been fined $72,000,000 by the federal government with another $20,000,000 in fines expected to come. Nor would there be an arrearage in excess of $1,200,000,000. Nor would there be 70,000 South Carolinians dodging their child support obligations.
It would take us hours to explain the severity of the Mess at the South Carolina DSS, but those who want a little taste of the magnitude of the problems and their causes might want to read "DEADBEAT PARENTS" TARGETED IN SOUTH CAROLINA, CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE CAMPBELL MAY HAVE MISSED CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS, LINKS TO THE COMPLETE RESPONSES OF SC DSS TO BUDGET PROVISOS REGARDING COMPUTERIZED CHILD SUPPORT TRACKING AND COLLECTION SYSTEM, SOUTH CAROLINA CHILD (NON) SUPPORT--A CONTINUING PROBLEM, and THE MESS AT SC DSS--HOW THEY GOT THERE AND SOME THINGS TO DO ABOUT IT.
Labels: Child Support Collection, Computerized Child Support System, Dodging Child Support, Federal Fines, Institutional Mismanagement, Welfare Reform
