What is HIGH-VOLUME, AUTOMATED ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT IN INTERSTATE CASES??
The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 (42 USC 666 ) was touted as a measure to trim down the welfare roles of people and families who for generations subsided on government entitlements. Democrats and Republicans alike saw this as a political goldmine, because every voter had heard the horror stories of generations of children and their children growing up poor and on welfare. When the California Legislature amended the Family Code in 1994, they too saw the “political correctness” of making welfare reform a hot topic. Who wouldn’t? For years, taxpayers were tired of increasing income taxes, state sales taxes, and local property taxes. Me too. However, what none of us realized then was that if the “welfare” was being cut off, someone has to pick up the cost of enforcement and child support collection must be made “with teeth”. Lets face it, we all have family members or friends who either never paid their child support, or never tried to collect it because the parent (usually missing) was the
