Cooperating on Child Support
Too few single-parent families are not receiving the child support they are owed. By expanding the child support cooperation requirement in many welfare programs and childcare subsidies to include non-custodial parents, families are less likely to be on welfare, more children will have more stability, and tax dollars will be safeguarded.
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Child Support Cooperation: Ending the cycle of dependency
Problem: Too few families are getting the child support they deserve Nationwide, child support payment collection is a big problem. The most recently available data shows that few single-parent families receive child support at all and still fewer receive the entire amount owed them. In fact, in 2015, fewer than one in four single-parent families […]
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Child Support Cooperation Reduces Dependency Without Breaking The Bank
Child support is one of the best tools to end the cycle of dependency for single-parent families. These payments boost incomes for single-parent families by an average of 54 percent, help more than one million children escape poverty, and make it more likely that families will be able to leave welfare behind.
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Five Ways That Congress Can Put a Stop to Food Stamp Fraud
Food stamp spending nearly doubled despite the number of Americans enrolled rising from approximately 35 million people to 41 million people.
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“Fixing” What Wasn’t Broken: Why Biden’s Child Tax Credit Scheme Is a Recipe for Failure
KEY FINDINGS THE BOTTOM LINE: CONGRESS SHOULD END THE BIDEN TAX CREDIT SCHEME. Biden radically changed the Child Tax Credit Prior to the passage of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) in March 2021, American families were eligible for the Child Tax Credit, which was most recently revised by the Trump tax cuts (Tax Cuts and […]
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