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Child Support Enforcement: Non IV-D Process
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- What is the Oklahoma Centralized Support Registry?
- What does this mean for employers?
- Is the Data Sheet form mandatory for all employers to complete?
- Do employers have to fill the form out every time they send a payment into the Oklahoma Centralized Support Registry?
- How are employers suppose to know the information below the line on the Data Sheet such as child’s name, date of birth or gender?
- Can employers send their own computer generated print out or do they have to physically fill out the Data Sheet?
- How long do employers have to complete and return the Data Sheets to the Centralized Support Registry?
- What information should be submitted with the payment?
- Where do I mail the payment?
- Can an employer continue to mail payments directly to a private party or person?
- What happens to the payments?
- What is the Child Support Enforcement program?
- What is the Oklahoma Centralized Support Registry?
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 modified Title IV-D of the Social Security Act and requires states to establish a central unit for receipt and disbursement of child support. Oklahoma Statutes were amended in Title 43, Section 413 to create the Oklahoma Centralized Support Registry (also known as the Central Case Registry) and implement this federal law. The Oklahoma Centralized Support Registry helps employers reduce expenses and paper work in processing wage withholding for child support payments by allowing them to send all payments to a single location.
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- What does this mean for employers?
There are generally three types of child support payments: IV-D case payments are for families receiving child support enforcement services from the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) Child Support Enforcement Division (CSED). Child support payments are deducted from an employee’s wages or other forms of income. The check is made out to Oklahoma Department of Human Services (preferred) or the Oklahoma Child Support Enforcement Division and mailed to the Centralized Support Registry. CSED calls these payments "IV-D" (four - d) payments.
Non IV-D case payments are those payments deducted from an employee’s wages or other form of income based on an Oklahoma court order and mailed to an individual parent, custodian, or private attorney. CSED calls these payments "Non IV-D" (non four - d) payments.
Interstate case payments are those payments deducted from an employee’s wages or other form of income and mailed to a Child Support Agency in another state.
This new process involves payments for Non IV-D cases. According to the state and federal statues, all payments currently being mailed to an individual parent, custodian or private attorney must now be mailed to the Oklahoma Centralized Support Registry.
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- Is the Data Sheet form mandatory for all employers to complete?
Yes, if child support payments are being withheld.
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- Do employers have to fill the form out every time they send a payment into the Oklahoma Centralized Support Registry?
Employers only fill out the form once on each employee.
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- How are employers suppose to know the information below the line on the Data Sheet such as child’s name, date of birth or gender?
If the information is in the court order, please complete that part of the form.
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- Can employers send their own computer generated print out or do they have to physically fill out the Data Sheet?
It is necessary to fill out the Data Sheet the first time.
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- How long do employers have to complete and return the Data Sheets to the Centralized Support Registry?
Ten working days.
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- What information should be submitted with the payment?
Make payments payable to the Oklahoma Department of Human Services. Include the following information with the payment:
Payer’s (employee) first and last name
Payer’s Social Security number
Family Group Number (FGN)
Employers should combine all payments, both IV-D and non IV-D, and send in one check (unless you have signed up for Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)) to the Oklahoma Centralized Support Registry. Attach the detailed breakdown of the payer information that makes up the check. The breakdown should be provided for each employee who has wages included in the check.
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- Where do I mail the payment?
Oklahoma Centralized Support Registry
P.O. Box 268809
Oklahoma City, OK 73126-8809
Oklahoma offers Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) as an option to transmit child support payments. Please call 522-2273 in the Oklahoma City call area or 1-800-522-2922 for information.
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- Can an employer continue to mail payments directly to a private party or person?
No. State and Federal laws mandate that payments be sent to the Centralized Support Registry. Non IV-D customers (mothers and fathers) may be initially frustrated with the additional two day processing time; however, there are benefits in providing good record keeping, payment records which will be available by telephone and Internet 24 hours/seven days a week that either party can access.
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- What happens to the payments?
The Centralized Support Registry will "pass through" the non IV-D payments to the custodial person designated by the iIncome assignment. By pass through we mean the income assignment receipt is first sent to Centralized Support Registry to be recorded and the payment is then sent to the custodial parent. This process adds an additional step to the non IV-D customer’s process but only adds a maximum of two work days to the normal process.
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- What is the Child Support Enforcement program?
The Child Support Enforcement Division (CSED) is a part of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services. CSED administers the program with in-house staff and through contracts with local district attorneys and non-profit agencies. In December 1974, the U.S. Congress amended Title IV of the Social Security Act by adding Part D – Child Support and Establishment of Paternity. Title IV-D required each state to designate an organization to administer a plan for enforcing child support. Services provided by CSED to parents under this law are called IV-D cases.
Non IV-D cases refer to all child support cases within Oklahoma other than Title IV-D cases. Generally, these cases are enforced privately by the custodial party (obligee) or noncustodial parent (obligor) or their attorney.
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