*tosses out Beggin' Strips*
Here's a little info from
http://www.ncsl.org/statefed/welfare/hr3130.htm
Alternative penalty for states making good faith efforts to comply with the automated child support systems requirements of the 1988 Family Support Act (Currently, noncompliant states are at risk of losing not only federal child support enforcement funds, but their TANF block grant as well.) **** So, if states don't meet quotas or comply, they lose funding. Good incentive to go for the CS, ain't it?
*Incentive payments will be based on five performance measures:
paternity establishment, establishment of support orders, collections on current payments, collections on past due payments (arrearages), cost-effectiveness.
*A state's share of the incentive pool will be based in each fiscal year on its performance for the five measures. The performance pool for FY 2000-FY 2008 is as follows:
FY 2000--$422 million
FY 2001--$429 million
FY 2002--$450 million
FY 2003--$461 million
FY 2004--$454 million
FY 2005--$446 million
FY 2006--$458 million
FY 2007--$471 million
FY 2008--$483 million
*When computing incentive payments, support collected by the state at the request of another state will be treated as having been collected in full by both states.
*The new incentive program will be phased in over two years beginning in FY 2000--1/3 of each state's incentive payment will be based on the new incentive system and 2/3 on the old system; in FY 2001, 2/3 of the payment will be based on the new system; in FY 2002, the incentive payment will be entirely based on the new system.
**** Notice that those numbers up there by the FY's is how much the Fed's are allotting for the entire country, to be split between all states.