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The purpose of this ADM is to advise local district Support Collection Units (SCUs) of the mandatory changes under the DRA to the assignment of support rights at application for TA and the discontinuance of the "temporary assignment" of pre-assistance arrears for TA applications made on or after October 1, 2009. The mandatory DRA changes limit the amount of assigned support to that which accrues during the period that the family receives assistance.
Additionally, this ADM advises SCUs of how the distribution of collections in a currentassistance case, regardless of whether the application received on or after October 1, 2009 represents a "new" case or a family who has returned to the assistance program, is impacted by the change in the assignment of support rights. Specifically, conditionally-assigned arrears, which previously were only applicable to a former-assistance case, and family arrears, which previously were only applicable to former-assistance and never-assistance cases, may be included on a current-assistance case, and collections received may be distributed to those categories of arrears where appropriate. This ADM also advises that a current-assistance case which includes a family who was on TA under an assignment of support rights prior to October 1, 2009, and which continues on assistance without interruption, is not impacted by the DRA changes to the assignment of support rights and, consequently, is not impacted with respect to distribution of collections.
Finally, this ADM advises SCUs of the changes in the way support collections distributed to categories of arrears owed to a family in a current-assistance case will be disbursed. In particular, collections from a source other than Federal income tax refund offset which are distributed to conditionally-assigned arrears and all collections distributed to family arrears will be disbursed directly to the TA family by the child support enforcement program.
Specific information is provided regarding the impact of these changes upon the child support enforcement program and CSMS.
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