Voices on child support
Congressional Research Service
Congressional Research Service report by Carmen Solomon-Fears, Specialist in Social Policy (institutional, nonpartisan)
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"Over the years, CSE has evolved into a multifaceted program. While cost-recovery still remains an important function of the program, its other aspects include service delivery and promotion of self-sufficiency and parental responsibility."
Source
Child Support Enforcement: Program Basics (RS22380), Congressional Research Service (copy hosted by University of Maryland Thurgood Marshall Law Library), 2012-11-05, Summary (PDF page 2 of 10; unnumbered) (report). Checked 2026-10-13.
Context
CRS summary describing the Title IV-D program enacted in 1975. The same summary reports FY2011 collections of $27.3 billion and that the program collected 62% of current support due. CRS reports are institutional and do not take policy positions.
The passage it comes from
The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program was enacted in 1975 as a federal-state program (Title IV-D of the Social Security Act) to help strengthen families by securing financial support for children from their noncustodial parent on a consistent and continuing basis and by helping some families to remain self-sufficient and off public assistance by providing the requisite CSE services. Over the years, CSE has evolved into a multifaceted program. While cost-recovery still remains an important function of the program, its other aspects include service delivery and promotion of self-sufficiency and parental responsibility. In FY2011, the CSE program collected $27.3 billion in child support payments and served nearly 15.8 million child support cases. However, the program still collects only 62% of current child support obligations for which it has responsibility and collects payments for only 57% of its caseload.
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