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Those who are interested, can click Table 5--Current and Arrears Collections Due and Distributed, FY 2008 to obtain the latest ACF statistics for child support arrearages throughout the United States. They will note that, according to the ACF, the total amount of back child support owed to South Carolinians was $1,175,425,929 as of the end of FY 2008. Although, this is a significant amount and the ACF calculations indicate that the total arrearage in South Carolina is increasing at about $80,000,000 per year, ACF fails to take into account that the past due child support accrues interest at 14% per annum; therefore, the current total child support arrearage in South Carolina is probably closer to $2,000,000,000.

South Carolina continues to be the only State that has failed to install the mandated computerized child support collection and tracking system. And as far as we can ascertain, South Carolina is the only State that does not require mandatory new hire reporting as mandated by the PRWORA.