Monday, March 07, 2011
SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE LACK OF AN AUTOMATED CHILD SUPPORT TRACKING SYSTEM
In a nutshell, South Carolina has been fined over $80 Million for failure to install computerized child support collection and tracking systems in compliance with federal law.
This is one of our favorite topics. So not only have we written dozens of letters and e-mails to the folks who have the power to fix the problem, but we write about the problem extensively on this Blog. For example, you may want to read SOUTH CAROLINA DSS FINES MOUNT, S.C. FINE: $82,858,661 AND COUNTING, UNDERSTANDING THE CUMULATIVE NATIONAL CHILD SUPPORT DEBT, MAJOR FEDERAL FUNDING AT RISK IN SOUTH CAROLINA, LINKS TO THE COMPLETE RESPONSES OF SC DSS TO BUDGET PROVISOS REGARDING COMPUTERIZED CHILD SUPPORT TRACKING AND COLLECTION SYSTEM, and HOW DO SEVENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE MANAGE TO SECRET THEMSELVES IN A STATE THE SIZE OF SOUTH CAROLINA?
The bottom line is that, because (apparent) lifetime appointee Larry McKeown will not, or can not, perform his (well-paid) job and the General Assembly has ignored funded federal mandates, South Carolina custodial parents and guardians are owed over $1.5 Billion in back child support and approximately 70,000 South Carolina parents are skirting their legal support obligations and passing them on to the taxpayers of the entire United States.
Interestingly, though former South Carolina AG Henry McMaster issued an Opinion that found that South Carolina laws making nonsupport of children a crime are lawful, to our knowledge his office never prosecuted a single non-support case. Additionally, when faced with the prospect of a $28 Million DSS budget deficit, rather than taking steps to increase child support collections so that custodial parents could get off of "welfare," the General Assembly chose to cut support to those parents.
In a nutshell, South Carolina has been fined over $80 Million for failure to install computerized child support collection and tracking systems in compliance with federal law.
This is one of our favorite topics. So not only have we written dozens of letters and e-mails to the folks who have the power to fix the problem, but we write about the problem extensively on this Blog. For example, you may want to read SOUTH CAROLINA DSS FINES MOUNT, S.C. FINE: $82,858,661 AND COUNTING, UNDERSTANDING THE CUMULATIVE NATIONAL CHILD SUPPORT DEBT, MAJOR FEDERAL FUNDING AT RISK IN SOUTH CAROLINA, LINKS TO THE COMPLETE RESPONSES OF SC DSS TO BUDGET PROVISOS REGARDING COMPUTERIZED CHILD SUPPORT TRACKING AND COLLECTION SYSTEM, and HOW DO SEVENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE MANAGE TO SECRET THEMSELVES IN A STATE THE SIZE OF SOUTH CAROLINA?
The bottom line is that, because (apparent) lifetime appointee Larry McKeown will not, or can not, perform his (well-paid) job and the General Assembly has ignored funded federal mandates, South Carolina custodial parents and guardians are owed over $1.5 Billion in back child support and approximately 70,000 South Carolina parents are skirting their legal support obligations and passing them on to the taxpayers of the entire United States.
Interestingly, though former South Carolina AG Henry McMaster issued an Opinion that found that South Carolina laws making nonsupport of children a crime are lawful, to our knowledge his office never prosecuted a single non-support case. Additionally, when faced with the prospect of a $28 Million DSS budget deficit, rather than taking steps to increase child support collections so that custodial parents could get off of "welfare," the General Assembly chose to cut support to those parents.
Labels: Child Support Collection, Computerized Child Support System, Dodging Child Support
