Are there new Federal Child Support Regulations?

On January 19, 2017, a new rule related to child support enforcement, from the Administration for Children and Families and the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, became effective.

Per the Federal Register, “this rule is intended to carry out President Obama’s directives in Executive Order 13563: Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review. The final rule will make Child Support Enforcement program operations and enforcement procedures more flexible, more effective, and more efficient by recognizing the strength of existing State enforcement programs, advancements in technology that can enable improved collection rates, and the move toward electronic communication and document management. This final rule will improve and simplify program operations, and remove outmoded limitations to program innovations to better serve families.”  Click here for more information. States have approximately the next year to implement various provisions of the new rule.