Child Support Demonstrations Approved in Three More States

Funds help children, support healthy marriage and parental relationships

HHS’ Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Dr. Wade F. Horn today announced $2,958,184 in federal funding to support demonstration projects in Georgia, Kentucky and Texas to promote improvements in child support enforcement efforts.

“These projects will help improve the well-being of children, promote paternity establishment and help parents provide increased financial and emotional support for their children,” Dr. Horn said. “With today’s announcement, we now have nine child support enforcement projects aimed at developing and testing new strategies in communities across the nation to support healthy marriages and parental relationships.”

The grants are awarded under the authority of Section 1115 of the Social Security Act and require that each project be designed to improve the financial well-being of children or otherwise improve the operation of the child support enforcement program. Section 1115 authorizes states to conduct experimental, pilot or demonstration projects likely to assist in promoting the objectives of the Social Security Act. ...

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