Government Affairs Task Force

GATF Child Support and Other Garnishments Subcommittee

One of the critical roles of employers and their payroll professionals is to help support our government in ensuring that our nation's children are cared for through our child support enforcement programs. Without the cooperation of employers and payroll professionals with the processes of reporting newly hired employees and collecting and remitting child support payments of noncustodial parents to state child support enforcement agencies in an accurate and timely manner, many single parents and their children would be financially strained to the point where they would be have no choice but to participate in state public assistance programs.

APA's GATF Child Support and Other Garnishments Subcommittee actively monitors federal, state, and local administrative and policy trends that can impact employers and their payroll professional role in the withholding and remittance of child support payments. The subcommittee participates in monthly conference calls to discuss administrative burden issues relating to child support enforcement activities and works with child support agency officials to continually evaluate and offer constructive feedback on emerging child support enforcement policies, procedures, and administrative systems. This dialog and feedback helps all parties involved with the child support enforcement process to create a system that is workable for everyone to achieve common goals and objectives.

If you would like to participate in this subcommittee, please contact William Dunn, CPP, Manager of Government Relations, via e-mail at wdunn@americanpayroll.org or by calling him at the APA Washington, D.C., office at 202-232-6889.

August 2004