DCSE can usually assist a custodial parent in the collection of support from social security disability benefits, but Supplemental Security Income benefits cannot be attached for the payment of child support. Some courts may choose not to enter an order if a noncustodial parent receives Social Security benefits. Also, some courts may credit a lump sum paid to the dependents by the Social Security Administration toward the noncustodial parent's arrearage.

Even when parents or guardians live in different states, a child support case can be opened at the local child support agency. The local child support agency can work with the other state to establish or enforce the support order. Click here: PUB 251: When Parents Live in Different States

Unless the parent in jail has other assets, such as a house or a car, or other income, child support will be nearly impossible to collect. A noncustodial parent who goes to jail should contact the local child support agency to modify the child support order. Otherwise, past-due child support will continue to grow and the noncustodial parent will be responsible for paying past-due support when released, plus interest.

No. TANF benefits are considered welfare for the benefit of minor children and DCSE cannot collect support monies from these welfare benefits.

Yes. When there is a change in visitation or custody of the child, you can either go to court and ask for a change in the child support order, or you may ask the local child support agency to modify the court order. You may be able to reduce child support payments or begin receiving child support from the other parent. The amount of the child support order may be decreased if the other parent also must support children from another relationship.

Your child support caseworker has lots of ways to find the noncustodial parent’s social security number, even if you don’t know it. Social security numbers are now required on applications for professional licenses, commercial driver's licenses and marriage licenses, on divorce records, support orders, paternity determinations or acknowledgements, and death records.

Social Security benefits are determined by wages reported each year for you. Benefits are calculated on the earnings a person receives during his/her lifetime. The higher the earnings and the number of years worked, the more the monthly benefit will be. Benefits are payable at full retirement age for anyone meeting the minimum criteria for social security credits (with reduced benefits available as early as age 62).

Individuals can assist local child support agencies by providing any information they have about the noncustodial parent’s (NCPs) whereabouts, income, and assets such as homes, cars, etc. The court may find a NCP in contempt of court if that parent has the ability to pay but is willfully not paying the child support. This enforcement tool is used only when all others have failed.

Yes. Social security is different from welfare. It is mandatory group insurance based on premiums paid out of a person's earnings. Although we do not collect welfare, we think those in our midst who spent perhaps many years paying into the Social Security system are entitled to their benefits.

You have 30 days to respond (file an Answer) to the Summons and Complaint. The Answer document you file is included with the Summons and Complaint. Complete the Answer document and file it with the Superior Court clerk within 30 days. You may call the local child support agency or Family Law Facilitator.

Tell the local child support agency when you or the noncustodial parent moves--no matter where. They can transfer your child support case to the county or state where you move if you are a custodial party. Also tell the local child support agency where the noncustodial parent moves. Child support can be enforced anywhere in the United States. No.

You are advised to declare payments made to you when you complete a study. The PPD Clinic is required by law to provide information to the IRS about payments to volunteers enrolled in studies.

A fellow named Ernest Ackerman got a payment for 17 cents in January 1937. This was a one-time, lump-sum pay-out--which was the only form of benefits paid during the start-up period January 1937 through December 1939. A woman named Ida May Fuller , from Ludlow, Vermont was the first recipient of monthly Social Security benefits.

Because reverse mortgages are considered loan advances and not income, the IRS considers them to be not taxable. Similarly, having a reverse mortgage should not affect your Social Security or Medicare benefits. If you receive SSI, Medicaid, or other public assistance, your reverse mortgage loan advances are only counted as "liquid assets" if you keep them in an account past the end of the calendar month in which you receive them.

Yes. The local CSEA can take steps to do a withholding through the military system. Please contact your local CSEA.

Today workers pay 6.2 percent of the earrings up to $68,400 and employers match it. Today, the average benefit for a retired worker is about $760. For each individual, what they pay in and receive depends on their work history, age, how long they worked, whether they have dependents and how long they live in retirement. The rationale for using the worker's highest 35 years is to have most of his or her work life count toward Social Security.

If the noncustodial parent does not respond to the Summons and Complaint, the court will set the amount of child support based on the information it has from the local child support agency and the custodial party.

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