Cut redundancies concerned children collections of aid
A $ 12 million budget deficit forced the county agency collects child support payments check off up to 160 workers and 40 others demoted, increasing concerns of its low collection rate is already May Drop.
The deficit in “Child Support Services is 22 per cent of the Agency of $ 55 million annual budget, and layoffs could affect 23 per cent of its 700 staff members.
The Agency has already more than 100 vacancies and cut travel, training, printing, overtime and other expenses.
The agency proposed reductions are part of a wider circle to conclude a budget of $ 151 million deficit by eliminating 983 vacant posts and the reduction of 394 workers. The circle of countries to take action on the layoffs in June, and it must balance its budget before the new fiscal year begins July 1.
Proponents of children are concerned that by reducing the technician child could result in collections and that the drop in enrollments of families on social assistance and social service programs.
“The main cause for welfare dependency is the lack of recovery companies child,” said Geraldine Jensen, president of the club of children for the implementation of assistance.
The national collection on the current support rate of 58 percent was due for the year 2002 according to the latest information concerning the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement Web site.
Jensen has long been frustrated by the low collection rate of excise duty in the county of San Diego in California. These two units to collect 40 per cent for support due course.
One of the reasons the debt of the low rate is because California and South Carolina are the only two countries in the country without a national survey automated child.
San Diego County child sleeves 136000 assets. The events are automatically after the Child Support Services, if the parents of children go on welfare. Other cases involve parents have problems, negotiation, child maintenance payments on its own.
A study in February by The Urban Institute, a political independent research organization, estimates that California registered at least $ 233 million for fiscal 2001, from child benefit for families that otherwise Should be food stamps and other public support.
Last fiscal year the federal, provincial collections amounting to $ 155 million, of which 50 million USA was the return of state and federal governments for welfare provided that low-income families.
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