Tuesday, December 28, 2010
OKLAHOMA DOING POOR JOB--SOUTH CAROLINA DOING WORSE JOB
According to the most recent data available from the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Oklahoma has 139,413 child support cases with arrears due and 89,500 cases paying towards arrears. According to the same data, South Carolina has 139,894 cases with arrears due and 77,130 cases paying towards arrears. Click Table 6: CASES WITH ARREARS DUE AND CASES PAYING TOWARDS ARREARS, FY 2008 to review the complete table.
Although there are some states that are doing a worse job than Oklahoma is doing, we picked Oklahoma because of its similarity with South Carolina in terms of the total number of child support cases with arrears due. However, readers will note that while South Carolina has only 581 more child support cases with arrears due than Oklahoma, South Carolina has 12,370 more cases that are not paying towards arrears than does Oklahoma. The total number of child support cases with arrears due in which no payments are being made towards the arrears in South Carolina is 62,764, which works out to a non-payment rate of 45%. The total number of child support cases with arrears due in which no payments are being made towards the arrears in Oklahoma is 49,913, which works out to a non-payment rate of 36%.
Because South Carolina is doing such a poor job of collecting child support arrearages, U. S. taxpayers are having to help support 62,764 South Carolina households containing hundreds of thousands of children that do not belong to them. And at last count, South Carolina was receiving approximately $40,000,000 in Temporary Aid to Needy Families on an annual basis.
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Although there are some states that are doing a worse job than Oklahoma is doing, we picked Oklahoma because of its similarity with South Carolina in terms of the total number of child support cases with arrears due. However, readers will note that while South Carolina has only 581 more child support cases with arrears due than Oklahoma, South Carolina has 12,370 more cases that are not paying towards arrears than does Oklahoma. The total number of child support cases with arrears due in which no payments are being made towards the arrears in South Carolina is 62,764, which works out to a non-payment rate of 45%. The total number of child support cases with arrears due in which no payments are being made towards the arrears in Oklahoma is 49,913, which works out to a non-payment rate of 36%.
Because South Carolina is doing such a poor job of collecting child support arrearages, U. S. taxpayers are having to help support 62,764 South Carolina households containing hundreds of thousands of children that do not belong to them. And at last count, South Carolina was receiving approximately $40,000,000 in Temporary Aid to Needy Families on an annual basis.
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Labels: Child Support Collection, Welfare Reform
