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.
Joan Entmacher
jentmacher@nwlc.org
(202) 588-5180
Vicki Turetsky
vturet@clasp.org
(202) 906-8017
Deborah Weinstein
dweinstein@chn.org
(202) 223-2532
June 2007
Thanks to Luke Van Houwelingen, Georgetown University Law Center
Federal Legislation
Clinic, and Michelle Vinson, Center for Law and Social Policy, for their help in preparing this material.
Ahaviah Glaser
havig@firstfocus.net
(703) 535-3864