Child Support among W-2 Participants
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چکیده
The decreasing availability of cash assistance to single-parent families has resulted in increased policy attention to the private child support system. Child support is being considered as a potential income source for families who would have relied extensively on the welfare system in the past. The 1996 welfare reforms included several provisions designed to increase the importance of child support to the welfare population. The child support enforcement system was strengthened, including new incentives for states to establish paternity and collect support, stronger mandates that recipients of cash and noncash assistance cooperate with child support enforcement efforts, and new enforcement strategies to make it harder for nonresident parents to avoid payment—especially when employed in the formal labor market.
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