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Friday, September 10, 2010

 
S.C. FINE: $82,858,661 AND COUNTING

According to the South Carolina Department of Social Services Response to Budget Proviso 26.20, dated August 31, 2010, South Carolina has been fined $82,858,661 to date by the federal government for failure to install the computerized child support tracking and collection system mandated by the 1996 Welfare Reform Act.

Sad to say, South Carolina is the only state that is not yet in compliance with this fourteen year old law. Moreover, because South Carolina's system is not scheduled to come on-line until September of 2011, it is anticipated that South Carolina will be fined at least another $10,000,000.

Given that the 1996 Welfare Reform Act was designed to decrease the number of welfare recipients and South Carolina is big on personal responsibility, it is difficult to understand why so little attention has been paid to addressing this problem. Surely this is intentional and not just the result of either laziness or incompetence on the part of either State employees or political appointees.

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