Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the Senate on June 26, 2008, to require the state Office of Child Support to coordinate the collection and distribution of Social Security disability and related payments with Friend of the Court offices when the recipient is involved in a child support order

The vote was 35 in favor, 0 opposed and 3 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 691 at Senate Journal 87)

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Got a buddy or big contributor that needs a job, or wants to start a Contracting firm?????? Why not light a fire under the FOC office instead of hiring a company to do their job and then let them keep the job they aren't doing now??

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The office of child support would be in charge of parenting time grants under Title IV-D which currently the state of Michigan wastes. TITLE 42 > CHAPTER 7 > SUBCHAPTER IV > Part D > § 669b. Grants to States for access and visitation programs gives a 90% federal match. The state of Michigan never applies for these grants, wasting these matching dollars. Putting them in an office where parenting time in an office focused exclusively on child support is a good way to ensure that the state of Michigan continues to waste this money, and unnecessarily allows children to suffer without the love of parents who desperately want to spend time with their children.

There is a substantial need to create a centralized authority of oversight. As the system currently stands, there is no oversight authority for the privatized contractual agreement with ACS, inc. (a.k.a. MiSDU). By establishing an authority, communication and databases may now be shared, resulting in greater efficiency within DHS. This is fiscally responsibly legislation. Beverly Tran