Posted On: September 16, 2007
Mississippi DHS charges custodial parent fee for collecting child support
Custodial parent says fee for collecting child support unfair
In an story out of Meridian, Mississippi, a mother received a letter from the Mississippi Department of Human Services charging her a $25 fee for collecting child support. Under federal law, the fee is charged when DHS is successful in recovering child support where the custodial parent has not received public assistance.
The fee is nominal in comparison to the taxpayer dollars spent collecting the child support, but the question becomes why the fee is not charged to the non-custodial parent who owed the child support.
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