DEFICIT REDUCTION ACT 2005 takes part of child support payments

[Holly_Hobby]

Parents to have money taken away from child support payments

CASTLE ROCK - Linda Green couldn't believe what she found when she opened her mail this week. She received a letter from the Colorado Department of Human Services, telling her she would soon have money taken out of the child support payments she receives from her 13-year-old son's father. "I was a little astounded," she said.

The letter stated that under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which President Bush signed into law early last year, federal spending on so-called entitlement programs, such as Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and other social programs, would be restrained, in order to pay down the national deficit. To help do that, starting October 1, custodial parents in Colorado who receive at least $500 in a fiscal year in child support payments, will have $25 a year automatically deducted, helping fund child support enforcement programs the Federal Government has previously been paying for on its own.

It was up to individual states to decide which parent, custodial or non-custodial, would pay the $25 fee.

"In essence," said John Bernhart, the State of Colorado's Child Support director, "collecting from the non-custodial parent amounted as a practical measure to have the state pay, and in the case of Colorado, that was not a fiscally possible option."

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http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=78191

[againes654]

1. This is fucking insane

Why are children having to pay for a deficit they didn't help create?

[Holly_Hobby]

2. What else are they going to think of? n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. Charging an administration fee for WIC vouchers?

It really wouldn't surprise me one bit.

[angstlessk]

3. The kids will untimately going to pay off bush's debt...start em young

and make sure the POOREST OF THE POOR PAY FOR THE TAX CUTS FOR THE FUCKING RICHEST OF THE RICH. :grr: did I say :grr:?

[terisan]

4. We have to get them out of office before 2009. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. MORE TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH AND GREEDY! Oh Hell no!

The RICH AND GREEDY shouldn't have to sacrifice their NOT NEEDED TAX CUTS so that the deficit, which their tax cuts help create, is reduced without more hardship on working class and poor families. :argh:

Way too stick it to the rest of us, you slimy greedy HAVES AND HAVE MORES, GEORGE'S REAL BASE!


This country sucks sometimes.

[Holly_Hobby]

7. Kick