Sunday, March 18, 2012
ANOTHER YEAR LATE AND ANOTHER $10 MILLION SHORT
As we previously posted at http://parentsrights.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-south-carolina-dss-director.html, Lillian Koller knows what to do. The question is whether she is being given adequate support and leeway to get the job done. South Carolina does not need to reinvent the wheel. Every State except for South Carolina has adopted the Model Version of the New Hire Reporting Statute. And, last time we checked, only South Carolina had yet to install the computerized child support tracking and collection system mandated by federal law.
South Carolina's failure to install the computer system will in all likelihood cost the State another $10 Million in fines this year, and in our opinion, places South Carolina at risk for losing up to $80 Million per year in federal funding.
We have offered solutions for cleaning up what we refer to as “The Mess at DSS.” And had our advice been heeded, we are confident that South Carolina could have saved about $50 Million in fines, collected another $250 to $500 Million in Child Support Arrearages, lowered its teenage pregnancy rates, collected incentive bonuses from the federal government, increased its high school graduation rates, and reduced its expenditures on public assistance.
Any South Carolina resident interested in helping Ms. Koller with an enormously difficult job, could start by clicking http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/pubs/2011/csr/csr1112.pdf and then reading all the ACF Newsletters for the last ten years. Or they could share our BLOG address with Ms. Koller and ask her to contact us. That address is http://parentsrights.blogspot.com/
As we previously posted at http://parentsrights.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-south-carolina-dss-director.html, Lillian Koller knows what to do. The question is whether she is being given adequate support and leeway to get the job done. South Carolina does not need to reinvent the wheel. Every State except for South Carolina has adopted the Model Version of the New Hire Reporting Statute. And, last time we checked, only South Carolina had yet to install the computerized child support tracking and collection system mandated by federal law.
South Carolina's failure to install the computer system will in all likelihood cost the State another $10 Million in fines this year, and in our opinion, places South Carolina at risk for losing up to $80 Million per year in federal funding.
We have offered solutions for cleaning up what we refer to as “The Mess at DSS.” And had our advice been heeded, we are confident that South Carolina could have saved about $50 Million in fines, collected another $250 to $500 Million in Child Support Arrearages, lowered its teenage pregnancy rates, collected incentive bonuses from the federal government, increased its high school graduation rates, and reduced its expenditures on public assistance.
Any South Carolina resident interested in helping Ms. Koller with an enormously difficult job, could start by clicking http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/pubs/2011/csr/csr1112.pdf and then reading all the ACF Newsletters for the last ten years. Or they could share our BLOG address with Ms. Koller and ask her to contact us. That address is http://parentsrights.blogspot.com/
Labels: Computerized Child Support System, Institutional Mismanagement
