Child Support Distribution Act of 2000 (H.R. 4678) overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives last September 7, 2000 by a vote of 405 to 18. A similar measure, now called the Child Support Distribution Act of 2001 (S. 918) was introduced in the Senate's 107th session but never came to debate.
The need for better enforcement of child support laws were evident in a recent survey that showed that fewer than one-fifth of inner-city children born to single teenage mothers receive child support from their fathers. In fact, half of these children never see their fathers at all. Many fathers are unable to provide support because they are unemployed and do not have any marketable skills. As a result, a great majority of these teen mothers depend on welfare to support their children (Moore).
The Child Support Distribution Act seeks to address these problems such as these, factors that hinder a parent's ability to provide adequate child support and make children wards of the state. First, it gives more monetary child support to families leaving welfare. Through reforms in welfare disbursement and public assistance, the bill would distribute more than $1 billion per year in additional child support to low-income custodial parents, usually mothers. Indigent non-custodial parent - usually the father - would also benefit from programs helping them to support and raise their own children. In addition, the bill also specifically promotes marriage through programs like marriage counseling and similar services.
Under the current law, a mother who applies for welfare automatically assigns the state the right to collect child support on her behalf. The state is able to use techniques like intercepting tax refunds to collect the child support owed. However, any money collected from the father is first applied to this "debt" to the state, the amount the mother was forced to collect from welfare.
The Child Support Distribution Act changes this provision. If a mother leaves welfare, she and her children have first claim on all child support paid for by the father. By providing mothers with such monetary help, the bill tries to help such single parent families stay off welfare at a time when they are vulnerable to economic hardship ("House Okays Bill to Send Child Support to Parents.")
Current rules also prohibit single mothers and children from receiving child support payments if they are already...
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