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The child support program rewards the states for actually creating broken homes and is an obstacle to shared equal parenting. Check out http://www.nationwideblueprint.com for more information about the program.

Articles are coming out across the board in Virginia and other states portraying that the child support program is ripping off poor mothers and poor families because of a $25.00 application fee after it has been determined the agency has distributed $500.00 or more in a calendar year. The propaganda couldn't be further from the truth and is simply untrue. My general response is that the State bureaucracies are just trying to solidify their position as savior to keep their jobs by rewarding a single party with a negative outcome, which is broken homes. Our irresponsible and wasteful government at work. My general editorial response (198 words) is pretty much as follows:

Federal cuts will not put more W. VA
families on welfare. This is a smokescreen that state bureaucracies put up in
an attempt to maintain comfy government employment with lush benefits.

The child support programs were intended to recuperate money
provided by the federal government to the states for welfare. This turned the
states that participate in voluntary Title IV-D programs into taxpayer
subsidized collection agencies. States now focus on revenue generation by
forcing middle and upper-income families into these “free for all” welfare
programs.

The states have created their own dilemma by trying to
artificially increase their participation numbers instead of focusing on families
that need them most, the lower income participants. Only 11% of the cases
should qualify for services on the taxpayer dime; people already eligible for
other state welfare programs.

There are sufficient private collection firms to make up the
difference of any budget cuts by removing nearly half the caseload which
shouldn’t qualify or be eligible for free government services in the first
place. Adding restrictions and removing income ineligible families will
streamline the agency and force the state to focus their programs on aid to
needy families and save the taxpayers immensely.

Eyewitness (ABC NEWS) Channel 11 in Raleigh, North Carolina did a story on a recent Child Support Snafu http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=troubleshooter&id=5594128 which has lead to at least one frustrated individual that has been plagued by the child support industry.

Every year Luis has to file a motion to challenge the findings. He says, "They see that I'm right and they will dismiss it every year."

I took the time to post a few comments about why this individual has had such a problem because I think what is happening is such an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars:

The reason that the Child Support Agency wants to show an arrearage in this gentleman's case is because it allows them to claim that they are collecting at a higher percentage on arrearage cases. The child support or Title IV-D agency receives more money if they can show that they are performing exceptionally well on "arrearages."

Each case that these "child support" agencies open they get paid more federal money. So for each 1.00 that they spend, they receive 2.00 additional dollars from the Federal Taxpayers. This amounts to welfare for middle and upper class families at the complete expense of the taxpayer. Give me a break people. These people are making good money and should not be receiving welfare services. Basically the person that is receiving the free benefit, which is the court created "custodial" parent so they should have to pay.

Our judiciary has been sold out under cooperative agreements so that they create these orders and get paid as a direct result of their decisions. We no longer have an independent judiciary, but a miner and sapper of our individual rights.

Child Support Snafus are not something that are unique to just North Carolina. They are happening throughout the United States due to immense caseloads associated with the highly competitive child support industry. The caseloads are so critical high and the errors are so common due to the State program directors packing as many middle and upper class feuding families into the programs. By padding the participation numbers the agencies receive more federal matching funds at taxpayer expense. The program no longer focuses on recovering debt associated with welfare expenes and now focuses almost solely on revenue generation for the State budgets. Children are now worth a specific amount of money when "enrolled" into these free for all welfare programs that lack proper restrictive eligibility requirements. Restricting participation would reduce errors and increase efficiency, while bringing the programs' focus back to aid for needy families.

On top of the Snafus there are an immense number of other problems, including criminal activity associated with the various state child support programs. Just review the articles and information below to see how far the problems actually go.

Here are some great examples of what can happen with citizens' information that is in the hands of incompetent state agencies:

• Child Support Paperwork Glitch Exposes Private Information of over 10,000 Citizens: HERE
• Mounting Accountability Problems With Child Support Programs: HERE
• Identity Theft:: Opt Out of Family Court Services Before it Happens to YOU!: HERE
• Privatization, Identity Theft, and Crony Capitalism" http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=1186
• Hacker Breaks Into Nebraska Child-Support Database" FoxNews.Com, June 29, 2006
• Vermont Computer Hacked: 70,000 users at risk" Lock Down Your Identity January 30, 2007
• California Faxes 1170 Citizen's Private Information to Wrong Place: Press Release: California DCSS January 30, 2007

Additional Criminal Activities that may already be occuring with your private information:

Child Support Clerk Charged With Embezzlement: More Government Corruption: http://www.laryholland.com/serendipity/archives/402-Child-Support-Clerk-Charged-With-Embezzlement-More-Government-Corruption.html

Two Maine Media Outlets Report More Thieving Title IV-D/CSE Employees: http://www.laryholland.com/serendipity/archives/367-Two-Maine-Media-Outlets-Report-More-Thieving-Title-IV-DCSE-Employees.html

Fort Bend Woman Guilty in Child Support Ring: http://www.laryholland.com/serendipity/archives/366-Fort-Bend-Woman-Guilty-in-Child-Support-Fraud-Ring.html

Child Support Worker Arrested In Bribery Scheme: http://www.laryholland.com/serendipity/archives/329-Child-Support-Worker-Arrested-in-Bribery-Scheme.html

Title IV-D Employee Embezzles Quarter of Million in Child Support Money: http://www.laryholland.com/serendipity/archives/311-Title-IV-D-Employee-Embezzles-Quarter-of-Million-in-Child-Support-Enforcement-Money.html

If a government agency cannot even protect your data...why would you think they could protect or decide in matters that are best for your children. Children need both parents to look over their children, not incompetent government bodies that benefit from tearing apart homes.

• FOIA REQUEST to State of Michigan Department of Human Services: HERE

• UPDATE ON FOIA REQUEST: HERE

• ACTUAL FOIA REQUEST: HERE

The above requests are directed to the Michigan Department of Human Services the Financial Data Match program required for the states to receive voluntary grant and incentive monies from the federal government.

Here are some great examples of what can happen with citizens' information that is in the hands of incompetent state agencies:

• Child Support Paperwork Glitch Exposes Private Information of over 10,000 Citizens: HERE
• Mounting Accountability Problems With Child Support Programs: HERE
• Identity Theft:: Opt Out of Family Court Services Before it Happens to YOU!: HERE
• Privatization, Identity Theft, and Crony Capitalism" http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=1186
• Hacker Breaks Into Nebraska Child-Support Database" FoxNews.Com, June 29, 2006
• Vermont Computer Hacked: 70,000 users at risk" Lock Down Your Identity January 30, 2007
• California Faxes 1170 Citizen's Private Information to Wrong Place: Press Release: California DCSS January 30, 2007

One blatantly apparent problem with Michigan's Financial Data Match program is that banks could potentially share citizen's information without their knowledge and without them having any open family court cases. This give the opportunity to the requesting agency to sift through the information of anyone's accounts that is greater than $500.00 as a potential match to an open family court case. The problem also is when a wrong match is made and money is taken from an individual that there is no recourse because the state has granted immunity from liability in these actions.

Do you want your personal information shared with government agencies that don't have adequate safeguards, violate federal privacy regulations, and laptops containing confidential information about you floating loosely around all over the place? Do you want to have to rebuild your credit from scratch because of mistakes made by incompetent government agencies that are sharing information back and forth?

You should opt-out of Family Court Services and/or Friend of the Court services as soon as possible and BEFORE identity theft happens to you! Here's how!

Additional Criminal Activities that may already be occuring with your private information:

The place is Meridian, Mississippi and the alleged crime is EMBEZZLEMENT. I have been covering stories surrounding the leeches that have been involved in the free for all welfare program, created under the guise of "child support enforcement," known as the Title IV-D Program. The program is already stealing from taxpayers by forcing the inclusion of the middle-class and upper-class families in to the program but now there is definitely an upward trend associated with theft from the program itself by the County cooperative contract employees demonstrating a need for citizen oversight. We cannot entrust these employees to manage money, let alone make recommendations to what is best for our children.

Another County employee, this one in Lauderdale County, has been indicted by a grand jury on felony embezzlement charges for allegedly stealing more than $216,000.00 of program money, paid for by taxpayers, by writing unauthorized checks to herself from January 2002 through April of 2007. This employee was released on a $10,000.00 bond, which no doubt was probably a drop in the bucket considering she has already been sitting on the $216,000.00 plus her lush salary.

Just last month we shared with you several other thefts, forgeries, and frauds that are overshadowing the agency that focuses on services to the greedy instead of services to the needy. Agencies across the nation are focusing collection efforts on middle and upper-class families and drowning out the voice of the needy, while apparently stealing some for themselves too. (http://www.nationwideblueprint.com)