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Basic Facts About Child Support More than 17 million children and their families received  $24 billion in child support in 2006 through the help of the Child Support Enforcement Program. This federal-state partnership has been increasingly effective at collecting child support, now collecting $4.58 for every dollar spent. But the success of this program is in jeopardy. Starting in October 2007, a federal funding cut will reduce state enforcement efforts by $6.7 billion over 10 years, which will deprive children of at least $11 billion in the support they are owed over the same decade. Hurting millions of low-income children by cutting a program of proven effectiveness makes no sense.

Because of federal and state investments, child support collection rates have more than doubled over the past decade.

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Most poor children growing up in single parent families receive support enforcement services from state and county child support programs funded under title IV-D – 17 million children and their parents.

Families in the Child Support Caseload

Child support is 31% of family income of poor single mother families when received – the second largest source after earnings.

43 percent of poor single custodial mothers receive child support.

Nearly half of near poor single custodial mothers receive child support.