Video evidence - Reform specific parts
Nick Gwyn
Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; hearing witness
Video: Work and Welfare Subcommittee Hearing on Strengthening the Child Support Enforcement Program
House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Work and Welfare hearing, "Strengthening the Child Support Enforcement Program: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities for Modernization", 2026-01-21
Nick Gwyn
House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Work and Welfare hearing, "Strengthening the Child Support Enforcement Program: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities for Modernization" - 2026-01-21
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What is said at 43:43
"Many of these families do not receive the child support paid on their behalf. Instead, those payments are kept by the state and split with the federal government as repayment for the family's TANF cash benefits, a policy known as cost recovery. [...] In terms of federal policy, eliminating [TANF] cost recovery entirely is the best option. So all child support is always passed through to families, but there are more incremental steps Congress can take to increase the amount of child support going to children."
Excerpt source: YouTube auto captions. Checked 2026-10-13.
What they argue
Says the program is efficient but calls for ending TANF cost recovery (full pass-through), family-first arrears distribution, ending foster-care child support charges, and recognizing inability to pay.
Position label: Reform specific parts. It describes this clip only, and "abolish" is used only when the speaker says it.
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