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How We Apply the Money We Collect

The DCSS collects and processes support payments each workday throughout the month. The DCSS operates and maintains an extensive accounting system. State regulations require the DCSS to establish an individual payment record for each case file. A single case file may contain many accounts and the DCSS must apply the money received by accounting guidelines established by state and federal regulations.

Effective October 1, 1998, as part of welfare reform enacted by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), changes occured in the distribution of both welfare and nonwelfare support payments.

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