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Updated On: 07/03/2025
Certified On: 01/23/2026

1. General Program-At-A-Glance

1. How many local child support offices are in your state excluding agencies with cooperative agreements?
1 in Anchorage.
2. What is the name of your IV-D agency?
Child Support Enforcement Division.
3. Is your state administrative, judicial, or a combination of both? In particular, does your state primarily use judicial or administrative procedures to establish and/or enforce support orders? Please describe.
Both. Alaska uses both administrative and judicial process to establish support obligations. The administrative process is generally used to establish an order when there is no existing court order. CSED rarely uses the judicial process to establish an order. The judicial process is often used when parents seek a child support order without the assistance of the child support agency. We do use judicial actions for collection of child support from sources that require it. (ANCSA)
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4. Does your state use the following applications: EDE, CSENET, QUICK?
Yes.
5. Describe special requirements for telephonic or video participation in two-state actions.
No special requirements, other than access to a computer with internet to join a meeting online.
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2. Duration Of Support

1. What is the duration of support in your state? Include the age of majority when the support obligation ends in the absence of other factors. Include your state's statutory citation(s).
If the order does not specify otherwise the order duration is 18. It can be extended to age 19 or the date of graduation, whichever comes first, if unmarried and pursuing a high school diploma or equivalent level of technical or vocational training & residing with custodial parent, guardian or designee of the parent or guardian. The order will require modification to add Post Majority support language if not already in the order. AS 25.20.010,AS 25.24.140(a)(3)
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2. If not addressed in the order, at what age is child support automatically terminated as a matter of state law? Qualify, if necessary.
18.
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3. Does the date of the order determine the law that is applied to the duration of support? If yes, describe.
No.
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4. Does your state law allow support to be paid beyond the age of majority under certain circumstances (for example, if the child has a disability or is in college)? If yes, describe.
Yes, Limited support provisions for disabled children and other allowances as stated in the court order.
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5. What are your state's laws regarding the emancipation of the child that would result in early termination of the child support obligation? Describe.
The child is legally married, unless the child is under the marriageable age of consent as defined in AS 25.05.171(a); is legally emancipated by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction; or enters the United States armed forces.
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6. Does child support end if the child no longer lives with the custodial parent but does not emancipate according to state law? For example, the child graduates from high school at 17 and no longer lives with the custodial parent?
No.
7. For orders that include multiple children, does your state automatically reduce the current support owed for remaining children after one of the children in the order reaches the age of majority or otherwise emancipates? If yes, describe.
Yes, Support obligations are adjusted in accordance with the language in the order. Orders issued in a state other than Alaska listing a flat rate amount of support will not automatically be adjusted. For Alaska orders established in accordance with Alaska Civil Rule 90.3, the obligation will be adjusted in accordance with Alaska Civil Rule 90.3 (as well as under 15 AAC 125.873)
8. Does your state provide IV-D services to establish support for a child who is no longer a minor but for whom state law provides post-majority support (for example, if the child has a disability or is in college)? If yes, please describe the specific circumstances.
No.

3. Statute Of Limitations

1. What is your state's statute of limitations for the collection of past-due support?
15 AAC 125.800 (f) The agency will reject an application for services made under (a)(1) of this section if (1) the child for whom support is sought and the child's custodian are living with the parent from whom support is sought when the application for services is submitted to the agency; (2) the child has already turned 18 when the agency receives the application and paternity has not yet been established for the child; (3) the application is submitted by an unemancipated minor who is not living with a parent or with a legal guardian or caretaker relative; (4) a support order is not in place and the youngest child for whom support is sought has already turned 19 when the agency receives the application; (5) a support order is in place, and the youngest child subject to that order is more than 30 years old when the agency receives the application unless, within five years before the agency receives the application, the (A) arrears have been reduced to judgment; (B) applicant has received services from the agency or a child support agency of another state; or (C) applicant has taken legal action to enforce the support order without the assistance of the agency or a child support agency of another state; or (6) the application is submitted from another state for a foster care case not covered under 42 U.S.C. 670 - 679 c (Title IV-E of the Social Security Act). AS 25.25.604. Choice of Law. (a) The law of the issuing state governs the nature, extent, amount, and duration of current payments and other obligations of support and the payment of arrearages under the order. (b) In a proceeding for arrearages, the statute of limitation under the laws of this state or of the issuing state, whichever is longer, applies.
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2. What is your state's statute of limitations for the establishment of paternity/parentage? Please explain.
18, age of majority.
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3. Is dormancy revival/renewal possible? If yes, under what circumstances and for how long?
Yes, administrative garnishment procedures may be used without reviving or renewing the support order. However, collection by a judicial remedy, such as writ of execution, requires a showing of good cause before executing on a judgment that is more than five years old.
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4. Can the statute of limitation for enforcement be extended or waived? If yes, under what circumstances and for how long?
Previously stated. Refer to - https://www.akleg.gov/basis/aac.asp#15.125.800

4. Support Order Details

1. What guideline type or method does your state use to calculate child support (for example, Income Shares Model, Percentage of Income Model, Melson Formula)?
The NCP's income is used primary custody cases. Both parents' income is used in shared, divided or hybrid custody cases. Please refer to Alaska Civil Rule 90.3
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2. What is the minimum number of days with each parent that can be considered in your guideline’s formula, and what evidence is required (for example, court-order custody schedule, parenting plan, or verbal testimony)?
110 or more overnights is considered shared custody. We may receive a custody order issued from the court, a calendar from the parents, or default to the physical custody per client statements to other agencies such as Division of Public Assistance and Office Children Services.
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3. Does your state have any statute(s) addressing interest on arrears? If yes, indicate the amount of interest charged, any related conditions, and the statutory citation.
6% annual interest charged on arrears.
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4. Does your state’s IV-D agency calculate interest on arrears? If yes, indicate the amount of interest charged and any related conditions.
Yes, 6% annually.
5. Does your state charge interest on retroactive support? If yes, indicate the amount of interest charged and any related conditions.
Yes, 6%, if reduced to judgement.
6. Will your state enforce a medical debt for any uninsured portion? If yes, under what circumstances?
Yes, once that debt has been reduced to a judgment. 15 AAC 125.431
7. If your state has issued an order, and another IV-D agency asserts that the person/entity entitled to receive child support payments has changed from the person/entity designated in your state’s order (due to a change in placement or foster care status), what does your state require in order to change the person/entity entitled to receive payments?
Court orders will require a modification to change the payee. Administrative Orders will require proof of a change of custody.
7.1 Does it matter if the child receives TANF or Medicaid-only? If yes, explain.
No.
8. Does your state require that a custodial party, who is not one of the biological parents, have legal custody of a child before enforcing an order for support that was issued to the biological parents as the parties for non-public assistance cases?
No.
9. Does your state IV-D agency grant the noncustodial parent credit toward child support for Social Security Administration (SSA) auxiliary benefits paid to the custodial parent on behalf of a child when those benefits are based on the noncustodial parent’s SSA benefit?
Yes. If proof is provided that the child(ren) on the case get Children’s Insurance Benefits (CIB) from SSA, and the payments go to the custodian of the children. In these instances, we will count the CIB as income for the obligor, and the amount will also be credited in the same calculation. Alaska Administrative Code 15 AAC 125.475.
9.1 If a child’s auxiliary SSA benefit paid to the custodial parent is greater than the current child support obligation, do you credit the excess amount against arrearages, and if so, how?
Yes. If the benefits paid in a given month exceed the ongoing support obligation for the month in which the benefits are paid, the excess benefits will be applied to any arrears that accrued before the month in which the benefits are paid; however, the excess benefits will not be credited to arrears that accrued before the months that the benefits are intended to cover. Alaska Admin code 15 AAC 125.475.
10. Does your state abate support? If yes, explain the circumstances and provide your statutory citation.
No.
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11. If a child’s family benefit paid directly to the custodial parent is greater than the child support order, how do you credit the excess amount of current support? (That is, is it treated as a gift, paid to arrears accrued at any time, or treated as payment for a future period?)
The excess benefits will be considered a voluntary payment. Alaska Admin code 15 AAC 125.475
12. If the case is an intergovernmental case, what is your process for notification and reconciliation of the SSA payments with the other state?
Reconcile case balances with the other state via debt calculations/payment histories.
13. Does your state close cases when the noncustodial parent receives SSI only or when the noncustodial parent receives SSI and Title II benefits?
Alaska reviews to close cases when the obligor receives SSI, Title XVI.
14. Does your state child support agency have a debt compromise program?
The state offers debt forgiveness for noncustodial parents who have accrued at least $1,500 in state-owed child support arrears and meets other eligibility criteria. If the parent complies with the arrears forgiveness agreement, state-owed debt will be forgiven in stages over a 6-year period. 15 AAC 125.650
15. When a child reaches the age of majority or otherwise emancipates and arrears are owed on the order, how does your state determine the payment rate on arrears? (For example, is collection enforced at the support amount plus arrears amount?)
15 AAC 125.545 Amortization Chart.
16. When there is an existing support order between the parents of a child and the child’s residence changes from one parent to the other, does your state require that the new custodial parent obtain legal custody before child support is addressed? Please describe.
Yes, if a court order. No, if an administrative order. Without the presence of a legal custody order in place, administrative orders are issued based on physical custody. Physical custody will be based on client provided information (statements, custody calendars), or information shared by other agencies such as Division of Public Assistance, Office of Children's Services and Tribes.

5. Paternity/Parentage

1. Does your state law require custody and visitation to be addressed at the time of paternity/parentage establishment? If yes, please describe and provide the statutory citation.
No.
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2. How is genetic testing coordinated within your state when the other party is in another state?
Through our genetic testing partner, LabCorp, and possibly the help of the other state’s child support office.
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3. What is the percentage of probability for genetic testing that creates a rebuttable or conclusive presumption of paternity?
99.9%.
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4. What is the state law citation that makes paternity acknowledgment conclusive? Please describe (if appropriate).
Alaska Statute AS 18.50.165.
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5. Does marriage constitute a rebuttable presumption of paternity/parentage without exceptions? Please describe and provide your statutory citation.
No. Alaska can pursue paternity establishment against a biological father when a husband is added to the birth certificate due to marriage. The parties have to provide to CSED “clear and convincing” evidence of why the husband is not the father.
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6. Does the father’s name on the birth certificate constitute a conclusive presumption of paternity? Please provide your state citation. If no, please describe.
No. Please see #5.
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7.Does your state have any other paternity/parentage-related presumptions? If yes, please describe.
N/A.
8. What, if any, is the agency name and link for your state’s putative fathers’ registry?
N/A.
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9.What documents regarding paternity can your state’s IV-D agency provide to other IV-D agencies? Are there any charges to the requesting IV-D agencies?
A copy of CSEDs Paternity Order, copy of CSEDs Paternity Witness Statement, copy of General Testimony. No cost to the requesting IV-D agency for copies.
10. Does your state’s bureau of vital statistics charge any fees to other states or private individuals for requesting searches, paternity/parentage documents, and data?
Yes. State of Alaska CSED may be able to acquire copies of vital records with no cost passed along to other states. Fees may apply if a private individual or other state contact Health Analytics and Vital Records directly.
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10.1 Describe any circumstances under which these fees may be waived?
N/A.
11. Is common-law marriage currently recognized in your state? If yes, describe the standard that defines common-law marriage and the date the standard went into effect.
No.
12. If there was a prior common-law standard in your state that is no longer in effect, what were the dates that standard was in effect? Describe the standard.
N/A.
13. If there is more than one child with the same custodial party and the same alleged father, should an initiating jurisdiction send one intergovernmental packet to your state (with a separate Declaration in Support of Establishing Parentage forms for each child) or a separate intergovernmental packet for each child?
One Transmittal #1 packet with information and documents for all children, including birth certificates.

6. Support Order Establishment

1. Does your state use an administrative, judicial, or a combined process to establish a support obligation?
Alaska uses both administrative and judicial process to establish support obligations.
1.1 If your state can establish both administratively and judicially, under what circumstances would your state use the administrative process? Please provide the statutory citation for your state's administrative procedures.
The administrative process is generally used to establish an order when a client applies for services and there is no existing order.
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1.2. Under what circumstances would your state use the judicial process? Please provide the statutory citation for your state's judicial procedures.
CSED rarely uses the judicial process to establish an order. The judicial process is most often used when parents seek a child support order without the assistance of the child support agency.
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2. When setting support using your state's guidelines, whose income is considered in addition to the noncustodial parent's (for example, custodial parent, spouse, child)?
Except for unusual circumstances, only the income of the NCP is used in primary custody cases. Both parents' income is used in shared or divided custody cases.
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2.1. What documentation is required as proof/evidence of this information?
In order to collect past public assistance for other States, the requesting State must petition Alaska (by Transmittal #1) for establishment and collection of the past arrears and provide the past public assistance time frames that occurred within the requesting state and include relevant supporting documentation, any existing court documents, orders for the case parties, and birth certificates for the children listed on the case.
3. What criteria for rebutting your presumptive guidelines have been established in your state?
The amount of child support due under Alaska's child support guidelines may be varied for "good cause upon proof by clear and convincing evidence that manifest injustice would result" if the amount due under the guidelines was not varied. 90.3 (c).
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4. Will your state establish support orders for prior periods of support? If yes, please describe (for example, from the birth of the child, from date of separation, prenatal expenses, five years retroactive).
Yes, Alaska will establish support for prior periods. For non-public assistance cases, we will establish support from the month the application for services was received. For cases with public assistance time frames, the agency will establish arrears from the 1st month state assistance was provided, but not to exceed six years before the service on the NCP of the child support order, or a notice of paternity and financial responsibility, or a paternity complaint, whichever is earlier.
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4.1. What information or documentation does your state require to proceed with establishing support for prior periods?
In order to collect past public assistance for other States, the requesting State must petition Alaska (by Transmittal #1) for establishment and collection of the past arrears and provide the past public assistance time frames that occurred within the requesting State and include relevant supporting documentation, any existing court documents, orders for the case parties, and birth certificates for the children listed on the case.
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4.2. Will your state allow a petition for support for a minor child when the only issue is retroactive support?
Yes.
4.3. If there are limitations upon your state's ability to establish support for prior periods, specify those limitations.
Alaska will establish support for prior periods. For non-public assistance cases, we will establish support from the date of the application for services. For cases with public assistance time frames, the agency will establish arrears the 1st month state assistance was provided, but not to exceed six years before the service on the NCP of the child support order, or a notice of paternity and financial responsibility, or a paternity complaint, whichever is earlier.
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5. Does your state require that a custodial party, who is not a biological parent, have legal custody of a child before establishing an order for support when public assistance is being expended?
No.
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5.1. What about when public assistance is not being expended?
No.
6. When your state has issued an order that reserves support, and now child support should be ordered, does your state require establishment or modification?
Modification.
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7. When there is an existing support order between the parents of a child and the child's residence changes from one parent to the other, does your state require that the new custodial parent obtain legal custody before child support is addressed? Please describe.
If the support order is issued from Alaska court, yes.. If the support order is an administrative order issued by CSED, no.
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7. Income Withholding

1. What are specific sources of income not subject to withholding?
Exempt funds such as TANF, SSI, VA disability and Native Dividends without an Alaskan court order specifically authorizing the garnishment of the Native Dividend. If the court order is obtained, the Native Dividends can only be paid to the custodian and are not used for a State debt.
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2. Does your state law adopt the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA) income withholding limits? Please provide the statutory citation.
Yes. Calculation of monthly income withholding amount (c) Unless state or federal law requires a lesser percentage, an order to withhold and deliver issued by the agency under AS 25.27.062 or AS 25.27.250 may not exceed 40 percent of an obligor's net disposable earnings, as defined in 15 U.S.C. 1672, unless the agency determines that there is good cause to increase the withholding amount. However, the withholding order may not exceed the percentages allowed under 15 U.S.C. 1673(b).
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2.1 Does your state have policy or procedures allowing the agency to use lower limits than the CCPA?
No. However, there are statutes and administrative code that address using lower limits than the CCPA.
3. Does your state charge any fees to the noncustodial parent that the employer must withhold and remit to the state? If yes, please explain.
Yes, paternity and service fees.
4. Is an employer required to begin withholding after the date of service, receipt, or mailing of an income withholding order?
The employer must begin withholding no later than the first pay period that occurs 3 days after the date of receiving the income withholding notice.
5. What are your state’s sanctions for employers for not implementing income withholding?
AS 25.27.260 Civil liability upon failure to comply with an order or lien.
6. What are the penalties to an employer for failure to remit payments withheld?
A person, political subdivision, or department of the state that intentionally fails or refuses to honor a properly served income withholding order under AS 25.27.062 that is not being enforced by the agency is liable to the obligee in an amount equal to 100 percent of the amount ordered to be withheld together with costs, interest, and reasonable attorney fees.
7. Does your state allow other jurisdictions to send income withholding orders for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits directly to your state’s UI agency? If yes, please explain your process and include any additional required documents.
No.
7.1 If no, what is your state’s process to aid the other jurisdictions in withholding UI benefits? Please describe and include the required documents.
The requesting state may initiate to us for full enforcement. We will also accept a limited services request for UI benefit collection only.
8. Does your state allow other jurisdictions to send income withholding orders directly to a noncustodial parent’s financial institution in your state? If yes, please explain your process and include any additional required documents.
Some financial institutions may honor direct income withholding orders that are sent via regular mail or Fast Levy. If the financial institution refuses to honor the request, the other state can submit a request for limited enforcement via a Transmittal 3.
8.1 If no, what is your state’s process to aid the other jurisdiction in collecting from a financial institution? Please describe and include the required documents.
If the financial institution refuses to honor the request, the other state can submit a request for limited enforcement via a Transmittal 3.
9. How does a noncustodial parent contest an income withholding in your state?
A party may contest the withholding under the order to withhold and deliver by submitting to the agency a written request for administrative review within 15 days after mailing of the notice under (a) of this section. The request must state the specific reasons for the contest and be accompanied by the documentation upon which the person requesting the review intends to rely. 15 AAC 125.510
10. When your state is enforcing an order and receives payment through income withholding that is not enough to cover the full amount ordered, how does your state apply the payment to the types of support (for example, current, arrears, medical, spousal support, other)? Please describe and provide the statutory citations, if appropriate.
Payments received will be applied by federal distribution rules, as outlined in the DRA.
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11. Do you send IWOs to employers for independent contractors? If yes, do you have a special process for determining the amount to withhold?
Yes, we do send income withholding orders to employers for independent contractors. No, the withholding amount is the same as is for non-independent contractors.

8. Distribution

1. Does your state pass through collections (and disregard collections for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) eligibility purposes) in current assistance cases? If yes, provide the amount and explain.
Yes. Pursuant to AS 47.27.040(c) SOA CSED does pass through up to $50 to the parent and child(ren) currently receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). This amount is disregarded when determining TANF assistance (not considered income for purposes of determining TANF eligibility.
2. Does your state participate in the pass-through in former assistance cases? If yes, provide the date and explain.
No.
3. In former assistance cases, are federal income tax refund offset payments applied to families first (DRA distribution) or state arrears first (PRWORA distribution)?
Family first (DRA).
4. How does your state distribute payments when the noncustodial parent has arrears due to your state and another state?
By percentage.
4.1. If there are no arrears due to your state, how does your state distribute payments when the noncustodial parent has arrears due to multiple states?
By percentage.
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9. Enforcement

1. What data matches (for example, financial institution, state lottery) and enforcement remedies are available through Automated Administrative Enforcement in Interstate Cases (AEI) in your state? (See AT-08-06: Implementing Section 466(a)(14) of the Social Security Act, High-Volume, Automated Administrative Enforcement in Interstate Cases.)
FIDM UIB PFDO
2. What criteria must be met, and in addition to Transmittal #3, what documentation does your state require to proceed with an AEI request?
We need a transmittal 1, order, pay history and a CSENet for those we interface with.
3. What are your state's criteria for reporting a noncustodial parent's child support information to credit bureaus?
An arrears balance of $1000 or more.
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4. To which credit bureaus does your state report a noncustodial parent's child support information?
We report to Experian, Transunion, and Equifax.
5. Is the method for credit bureau reporting judicial, administrative, or both?
Administrative.
6. Can a noncustodial parent who no longer has a past-due account have the report removed from the credit bureau? If so, what must the noncustodial parent do?"
Yes, the client must dispute it directly with the credit bureau. However, once the obligor pays the arrears in full, we will report this fact to the credit bureau or lending institution and will terminate reporting.
7. When your state is the responding state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSS for federal administrative offset? If yes, what is the minimum required past-due amount?
No.
8. When your state is the initiating state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSS for federal administrative offset? If yes, what is the minimum required past-due amount?
Yes, If there is at least $150.00 owed to the state of Alaska or $500.00 owed to the custodial parent, the obligor is then reported for offset.
9. When your state is the responding state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSS for insurance match? If yes, what is the minimum required past-due amount?
No.
10. When your state is the initiating state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSS for insurance match? If yes, what is the minimum required past-due amount?
Yes, There is no minimum.
11. When your state is the responding state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSS for MSFIDM? If yes, what is the minimum required past-due amount?
No.
12. When your state is the initiating state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSS for MSFIDM? If yes, what is the minimum past-due amount?
Yes. Once an obligor owes more than $1,000 or four times the monthly support obligation.
13. When your state is the responding state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSS for passport denial?
No.
14. Are the financial institution attachment procedures in your state judicial, administrative, or both?
Administrative.
15. Are there specific account types exempt from the administrative financial institution attachment process in your state? If yes, which account types are exempt?
No.
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16. Is the financial institution attachment process in your state centralized and/or automated?
Centralized.
17. What are the criteria to attach an account in a financial institution in your state?
A minimum of $1000 or four times the monthly support obligation.
18. Does your state's law require financial institutions doing business in your state to accept enforcement actions directly from other states? If yes, provide the statutory citation. Please explain.
No.
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19. If there are no statutory criteria required to attach an account, describe the process for requesting a financial institution attachment from another child support agency (for example, a Transmittal #3) and list additional documentation required.
Transmittal 3 - Copy of order a certified pay record.
20. Does your state's income withholding definition include amounts in financial institutions?
No.
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21. Does your state require sending a notice of intent to the noncustodial parent when attaching an account in a financial institution? Who notifies the noncustodial parent - the state, the financial institution, or both?
Yes, The state will notify the non custodial parent.
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22. How long does the financial institution have to hold funds before sending the noncustodial parent's assets to your child support agency?
It is according to each financial institutions policies.
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23. Does your state law or policy require the financial institution and/or state to hold the attached assets during the challenge or appeal time frame? If yes, provide the statutory citation and time frames.
The State will hold assets during the challenge or appeal time frame. The State will hold for 25 days. (15 AAC 125.463 for joint accounts)
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24. What amount or percentage of the noncustodial parent's financial assets are eligible for attachment? Is this different for joint accounts? Please explain.
100% of the obligors financial assets are eligible for attachment. No, it is not different for joint accounts.
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25. What are the criteria for an obligor or joint account holder to contest a financial institution attachment?
When CSED issues a garnishment to a financial institution, a Notice of Garnishment will be sent to obligor, giving him/her the opportunity to request an Administrative Review. The request must be made in writing and within 15 days of the date of mailing of the Notice of Garnishment and must state the specific reason for the contest and be accompanied by the documentation upon which the person requesting the review intends to rely.
26. Does your state have procedures to liquidate non-liquid assets (for example, stocks, bonds, etc.)? If yes, provide the statutory citation and the procedures to follow.
No.
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27. What are your state's criteria for driver's license revocation/suspension for nonpayment of support?
The arrears amount is 4 times the monthly support obligation and the arrears exceed $1,000 and the obligor is not making payments under an income withholding order issued by the agency or a payment agreement.
28. What are your state's criteria for driver's license restoration/reinstatement, including hardship exemptions?
The obligor must enter into a licensing payment agreement for the reinstatement of their driver’s license. If the obligor cannot afford the calculated payment agreement, they can apply for a hardship consideration.
29. Does your state allow temporary or conditional driver's licenses? If yes, what are the criteria?
No.
30. What are your state's criteria for professional license revocation/suspension for nonpayment of support? Specify the professional license types.
The arrears amount is 4 times the monthly support obligation, and the arrears exceed $1,000, and obligor is not making payments under an income withholding order issued by the agency or a payment agreement. A list of obligors is sent to the licensing agencies and applies to the renewal and issuance of new professional, business, and occupational licenses.
31. What are your state's criteria for professional license restoration/reinstatement, including hardship exemptions?
The obligor must enter into a licensing payment agreement for the reinstatement of their driver’s license. If the obligor cannot afford the calculated payment agreement, they can apply for a hardship consideration.
32. Does your state allow temporary or conditional professional licenses? If yes, what are the criteria?
The issuing licensing entity can determine if the obligor is eligible for a 150-day temporary operational license. (This license can only be issued once.) After the 150-day temporary permit expires, the licensing issuing agency will check with CSED to see if a full license can be issued.
33. What are your state's criteria for recreational license revocation/suspension for nonpayment of support? Specify the recreational license types.
In addition to other penalties imposed for the offense of criminal nonsupport, the court may suspend, restrict, or revoke a recreational license for the period during which the arrearage continues to exist. In addition to other penalties imposed for the offense of aiding the nonpayment of child support in the first degree, the court may suspend, restrict, or revoke, for a period not to exceed one year, a recreational license.
34. What are your state's criteria for recreational license restoration/reinstatement, including hardship exemptions?
Restoration/reinstatement would be based on compliance with the court issued order.
35. Does your state allow temporary or conditional recreational licenses? If yes, what are the criteria?
No.
36. What are the criteria for initiating/filing a lien in your state?
The obligor owes an amount that is more than 12 times the monthly support obligation under the support order or the obligor's arrears under the support order exceed $2,500, whichever is less. 15 AAC 125.490
37. Is the lien process in your state primarily judicial, administrative, or both? Please describe.
Administrative. We automatically issue a lien when the arrears on the case meet the criteria in 15 AAC 125.490.
38. Does your state enforce property seizure and sale? If yes, is this process primarily judicial, administrative, or both? Please describe.
No.
39. Does your state have state income tax refund offset as an enforcement remedy? If yes, describe whether the process for this remedy is primarily judicial, administrative, or a combination.
No.
40. Does your state intercept lottery or other types of gaming/gambling winnings in your state? If so, what kind of winnings are included?
Yes, through administrative enforcement on known lotteries, races, derbies, and gaming payouts.
40.1 If yes, is this enforcement judicial, administrative, or both?
Administrative.
41. What other administrative enforcement procedures are available in your state that are not otherwise described in the IRG?
State Permanent Fund Divided Garnishment and Commercial Fishing Garnishment.
42. What other judicial enforcement procedures are available in your state that are not otherwise described in the IRG?
N/A

10. Modification And Review/Adjustment

1. How frequently does your state conduct order reviews in IV-D cases (for example, every year or every three years)? (See 45 CFR 303.8.)
Every Three years. For administrative orders, 15 AAC 125.321(b)(2)(C). For judicial orders, 15 AAC 125.326(a)(4)
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2. What is your state's modification procedure? Briefly describe.
The party requesting a modification of an administrative order issued by the agency must provide proof that a significant change in circumstances (a change of at least 15% +/-) has occurred before the agency will schedule a modification if the administrative order is less than three years old, or the agency has completed a review within the past three years. If the requesting party provides proof of a change of more than 15%, the agency will schedule and modify the administrative order. The agency does not modify orders issued by or registered in a court of this state at the request of a parent, they must petition the court at their own expense. The agency will modify an order issued by or registered in a court of this state if support is owed to the state, or another state (Interstate cases at the request of the other state), or other circumstances that may justify modification such as incarceration of the paying parent.
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3. What are the criteria for modification under your state's guidelines (for example, a change that is more than $50 or 20% upward or downward from the current amount ordered)?
A change of at least 15% from the present order.
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4. Which of the following criteria for demonstrating a change in circumstances apply for modifying an order?

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4.1. The earnings of the noncustodial parent have substantially increased or decreased.
Yes.
4.2. The earnings of the custodial parent have substantially increased or decreased.
Yes.
4.3. The needs of a party or the child(ren) have substantially increased or decreased.
Yes.
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4.4. The cost of living has changed.
No.
4.5. The child(ren) has extraordinary medical expenses not covered by insurance.
Yes.
4.6. There has been a substantial change in childcare expenses.
No.
4.7. What other criteria does your state use for demonstrating a change in circumstances for modifying an order?
N/A.
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5. Does your state have a cost of living adjustment (COLAs) for orders? If yes, what index does your state use? (See 45 CFR 303.8(b)(1)(ii).)
No.
6. After learning that a parent who owes support will be incarcerated for more than 180 calendar days, does your state elect to initiate a review of an order without the need for a specific request, i.e., automatically? (See 45 CFR 303.8(b)(2).)
Yes.
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7. If a child’s family SSD benefit paid directly to the CP is less than the child support, does the above situation qualify as a change of circumstance for a review and adjustment?
This would be on a case-by-case review basis.
8. Does your procedure require a request from a party to review an order in an IV-D Non-Public Assistance case? If yes, must the party sign the request?
No.
9. Can the IV-D agency initiate a review in an IV-D Non-Public Assistance case without a request from the party (for example, based on data from automated sources that the parent is receiving unemployment or SSI)?
Yes.

11. Lump Sum Payments

3. How does your state attach different types of lump sum payments? For example, does your state use the OMB-approved income withholding order for employer-issued bonuses, a lien, and levy notice for workers' compensation (if workers' compensation is considered a lump sum payment in your state), etc.?
We use the OMB approved income withholding order for employer-issued bonuses.

12. Cost Recovery And Fees

1. Does your state elect to recover costs in excess of any fees collected to cover administrative costs in your child support state plan? (See section 454(6) of the Social Security Act and 45 CFR 302.33(d).) If yes, does your state collect excess actual or standardized costs on a case-by-case basis? Please describe.
No. Per page 2.5-3 of the Alaska State Plan, we do not recover these costs.
1.1. If yes, does your state recover costs from the custodial parent or the noncustodial parent? (Note: No costs can be assessed against a foreign custodial parent applying through a Central Authority in a Hague Convention country, a foreign reciprocating country, or a foreign country with state-level reciprocity.)
N/A
2. Does your state recover costs on behalf of an initiating state that has elected to do cost recovery? If yes, describe.
Yes, The obligor is given credit for the child support paid and the custodians payment is reduced by the other state cost recovery.
3. How does your state impose and collect the mandatory $35 annual fee (after collecting the first $550)? This fee is applicable in IV-D cases in which individuals who never received IV-A assistance are receiving IV-D services. (See 45 CFR 302.33(e).) See options below.
We charge the fee on cases which have met the criteria. We collect it from the obligee with the first child support collection after the $550 has been paid.
3.1. Is it retained by the state from support collected?
Yes.
3.2. Is it paid by the individual applying for child support services?
No, it is paid by the obligee.
3.3. Is it recovered from the noncustodial parent?
No.
3.4. Is it paid by the state out of its state funds?
No.

13. Insurance Match

1. Does your state have legislation requiring insurance companies to work with child support agencies to identify claimants who owe past-due child support? Describe the requirements and provide the statutory citation. How does your state allocate payments when there is more than one claim against the noncustodial parent's income? Should the payment be divided equally or pro-rated among the cases? (See 45 CFR 303.100(a)(5).)
No
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2. What criteria must a noncustodial parent meet to be eligible for your state’s participation in the federal insurance match program?
If the obligor has not already entered into a payment agreement with the state and there is debt owed we will attach any type of claim or policy we find in the obligor's name.
3. What process does your state use to intercept insurance payments?
We issue a property income withholding order.
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4. How does another state initiate and intercept collections from your state’s workers’ compensation agency?
Through our agency. We require a the Initiating Transmittal specifically ask for workers compensation attachment.
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5. Does your state participate in the Child Support Lien Network or CSLN (which provides insurance match services)?
Yes.

14. Family Violence

15. CSENet

1. When your state is the initiating state, does it send a Child Support Enforcement Network (CSENet) case closure transaction to let the responding state know your state has closed its case (including the reason for closure) and/or the responding state's intergovernmental services are no longer needed? (MSC P GSC15; 45 CFR 303.7(c)(11).)
Yes.
2. When your state is the responding state, does it send a CSENet case closure transaction to notify the initiating state that its case is closed based on one of the following reasons: (MSC P GSC16)? Initiating state failure to take an action essential for the next steps? (45 CFR 303.11(b)(17).) The initiating state requested the responding state to close the case? (45 CFR 303.7(d)(10).)
Yes.
3. When your state is the initiating state, does it send a CSENet case closure transaction to notify the responding state that it must stop any income withholding orders or notices and close the intergovernmental case? (MSC P GSC17; 45 CFR 303.7(c)(12).)
Yes.
4. When your state is the responding state, does it send a CSENet case closure transaction to notify the initiating state that, per its request, the case is closed, and your state has stopped its income withholding order? (MSC P GSC18; 45 CFR 303.7(d)(9).)
Yes.
5. Does your state send CSENet transactions to request interest information? (MSC R GRINT)
Yes.
6. Does your state send CSENet transactions to provide another state with interest and arrears information? (MSC P GSTAI)
Yes.

16. Copies Of Orders And Payment Records

1. What are the procedures and associated costs for obtaining a certified copy of a court order?
Certified administrative orders are obtained by request with a transmittal 3. Certified court orders must be requested through the district court.
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2. What are the procedures and associated costs for obtaining a certified payment record?
Pay records are requested through CSENet or a Transmittal 3 and there is no cost associated.
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17. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA)

1. What is the statutory citation for your state's enactment of UIFSA?
AS 25.25.001-903
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2. How does your state define the tribunal (See UIFSA 103)?
15 AAC 125.900 "tribunal" means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage
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3. How many copies or sets of documents does your state need for an intergovernmental case referral that is not sent electronically?
One
4. Does your state require initiating states to send intergovernmental forms in a one-sided format (when sending paper copies)?
Yes, we image documents as we are paperless.

18. International - Reciprocity

1. With which foreign countries or other jurisdictions (such as Quebec) does your state have state-level reciprocity for child support? (Do not include federal foreign reciprocating or Hague Convention countries.)
Canada (only the Following provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland / Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Yukon Territory),American Samoa, Australia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Germany, Guam, Ireland, Finland, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Slovak Republic, Sweden, Virgin Islands, United Kingdom.
2. Does your state exercise its option for enforcement of spousal-only orders for a foreign reciprocating country, a Hague Convention country, or a foreign country with which your state has state-level reciprocity? (See section 454(32)(B) of the Social Security Act.)
No.
3. Does your state agency accept direct applications for services from individuals residing outside the United States (See UIFSA 307 - Alternative A), or does your state's law allow discretion in accepting these applications (See UIFSA 307 - Alternative B)?
Yes.

19. International Information For Hague Convention Countries

1. When a Hague Convention country seeks registration of a Convention support order in your state, does your state allow the country to send an abstract (or summary) of the order on the Hague Abstract of a Decision form in lieu of the complete text? (See UIFSA 706(b) (1).)
Complete text
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2. Does your state send and receive pleadings and documents electronically in international cases? If yes, specify the types of pleadings and documents your state can send and receive electronically.
Yes, pay records
3. What methods of personal service does your state use?
Personal service methods include certified mail/restricted delivery/return receipt, and service by a licensed process server or Alaska State Trooper. AS 25.27.160(a)
4. When establishing a child support order, what can be included as add-ons to the child support guideline amount? Please provide the relevant statutory or case law citation. (See also question 1 under Support Details.)
Medical credits and/or debits can be included as add-ons to the child support guidelines amount. Alaska Civil Rule 90.3(d)(1); 15 AAC 125.085(a).
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5. Does your state encourage amicable solutions between parents to promote voluntary payment of support, such as the use of mediation, conciliation, or similar consent processes? If yes, describe.
No
6. What circumstances will cause your state to end child support before the normal duration?
Adoption, deceased child/payee/payor, marriage, military service, court ordered emancipation
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20. International Payments

1. How does your state disburse child support payments to foreign reciprocating and Hague Convention countries when your state is the responding state in a case?
As a participant in the central authority payment (cap) service we send payments electronically to other cap participants. For those not participating CAP, our SDU sends out payments via paper checks.
2. What actions does your state take to reduce the costs and fees associated with international payment processing?
None.
3. Does your state accept electronic payments from foreign reciprocating or Hague Convention countries in international cases? If so, provide payment instructions.
No, The IAT international format is not supported by our system.
4. Does your state send international payments to participating foreign authorities via OCSS’ Central Authority Payment Service? If yes, please list which foreign authorities.
Yes, currently Germany and Sweden.

21. Tribal Non IV-D

1. Has your state established cooperative arrangements with any Indian tribes or tribal organizations that don't have a tribal IV-D program?
Yes.
1.1. If yes, list the tribes and identify services provided, if less than full services.
Alaska Pribilof Islands Association (APIA) and Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (CCTHITA).
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2. Does your state have any IV-D attorneys licensed to practice in the courts of Indian tribes or tribal organizations that don't have tribal IV-D programs?
No.

22. Employer Services

1. Does your state require electronic payments? If yes, provide your state statutory citation.
No.
2. What is your state's SDU bank name?
KeyBank National Association.
3. What is your state's SDU vendor name?
N/A.
4. What is your state's web-based payment service for employers?
my.alaska.gov under Services for Businesses, CSED Business Services Portal.
5. What is your state's web-based payment service for noncustodial parents?
Website: my.alaska.gov under Services for Individuals, CSED Member Services Portal.
6. Does your state accept credit card payments? If yes, who does your state accept credit card payments from?
Yes. Non-Custodial Parents.
7. How does your state accept card payments?
Website: my.alaska.gov under Services for Individuals, CSED Member Services Portal.
8. Are there fees associated with the credit card payments?
2.5% Convenience Fee charged by the vendor, Alacriti/OrbiPay.
9. Does your state have other payment options?
Payment methods are EFT, check, money order, cashier’s check, web-based portal payments.
10. How many days following the first pay period after service, receipt, or mailing of an income withholding order is an employer required to begin withholding?
No later than the first pay period that occurs 3 days after receiving the income withholding order.
11. When must an employer remit amounts withheld from an employee's pay?
Within 7 business days of the pay date.
12. When calculating disposable income for child support purposes, what are the mandatory deductions from gross income required by state law, such as union dues or medical insurance premiums?
Federal, state, city taxes, FICA, and mandatory retirement plans.
13. What is your state's priority for withholdings?
Current support, health insurance premiums, arrears, interest
14. Does your state law adopt the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA) income withholding limits? Provide the statutory citation.
40% of disposable income; may go up to 65% when good cause is determined by agency as outlined in Alaska Administrative Code, 15 AAC 125.540.
15. What are the withholding limits for non-employees?
100%.
16. How does your state allocate payments when there is more than one claim against the noncustodial parent's income? Should the payment be divided equally, or prorated among the cases? (See 45 CFR 303.100(a)(5).)
Prorated.
17. When does your state require employers to send notice of an employee's termination?
Promptly.
18. How long should an employer retain the order after the employee's termination?
3 years.
19. What is the maximum fee for the administrative cost that an employer may charge for processing income withholding orders? (45 CFR 303.100 (e)(iii))
$5 per payment.
20. Provide your state's statutory citation.
Alaska Employer's Guide to Wage Withholding for Child Support; Ak. Stat. §§25.27.062, 25.27.255; 15 Ak. Adm. Code §125.540.
21. Does your state have a definition of a lump sum or bonus? Provide the statutory citation. (Note: States may define "lump sum" more broadly than only employer-related lump sums.)
Lump sum/bonus = one time payment made outside of scheduled recurring payments received from an IWO. Lump sums and bonuses can come from other forms of monetary property such as Workman’s Compensation. Lump sums and bonuses that come from real or personal property or payouts from a source other than the obligor’s employer are garnished at 100%. Lump sum or bonus payouts that come from the obligor’s employer that also submit regular IWO payments are garnished at 40%.
22. Does your state law require employers to report lump sum payments? If yes, provide the statutory citation or rule.
Employers are not required by law to report payouts. However, they are required to respond to CSED after receiving an Order to Withhold Property for Child Support, under AS 25.27.250, 260 and Alaska Administrative Code 125.410, employers are required to respond to this order.
23. Does your state have a threshold amount for a lump sum to be reported?
No threshold amount specified.
24. Does your state citation or rule provide how long the employer must hold the lump sum?
If the money is payable in a lump sum, or if the employer is making recurring payments to the obligor, they must deliver the payment to AK CSED within 7 business days of the pay date or date of withholding, whichever is later.
25. Is the Income Withholding Order (IWO) used for lump sums?
Yes.
26. How does your state attach different types of lump sum payments? For example, does your state use the OMB-approved IWO for employer- issued bonuses, a lien, and levy notice for workers' compensation (if workers' compensation is considered a lump sum payment in your state), etc.?
They are all attached similarly through the Order to Withhold Property. This would include issuing an Order to Withhold Property for a workers’ compensation garnishment for a lump sum payment.
27. If the lump sum is earnings as defined by the CCPA, does your state limit the withholding to a greater degree than the CCPA limitation?
No, we don't usually withhold more than 40% allowed by state law even though the CCPA allows a higher withholding amount. Under 15 AAC.125.540(c) withholding may not exceed 40% of new disposable earnings unless the agency finds good cause to increase the withholding amount. We observe the 40% threshold when garnishing lump sums from employers that are also submitting recurring IWO payments on the behalf of the obligor.
28. If the lump sum is not earnings as defined by the CCPA, does your state limit the withholding/attachment?
If the lump sum is paid out from an employer that the obligor is also having recurring garnishments from their standard pay, the lump sum garnishment is capped at 40% pursuant to the CCPA. If it is from a one-time payout outside of the obligor’s employer, the garnishment can be collected up to 100%.
29. What is your state's Medical Support Statute?
15 AAC 125.085; 15 AAC 125.331; 15 AAC 125.426; 15 AAC 125.427; 15 AAC 125.428
30. What is your state's Reasonable Cost Definition?
The definition is: medical support does not exceed five percent of his or her gross income, and is found here: CFR 45 303.31(a)(3)
31. What is the Health Coverage Expense?
15 AAC 125.426(a) The employee's actual cost of adding this child(ren) to the employer's plan (may be total costs for employee and children, if employee must now enroll, or it could be zero if the employee alreaday has dependent coverage).
32. What is the Income Withholding Limits for Support?
40% of disposable income; may go up to 65% when good cause is determined by agency as outlined in Alaska Administrative Code, 15 AAC 125.540.
33. What is the Priority of Withholding?
priority of support 1. Current (prorates and pays MSO, Spousal and medical) at the same time 2. Arrears (principal first, then interest) 3. Fees (always paid last)
34. What is the priority of health coverage if the income withholding limit is less than the total costs of ordered coverage?
First, the monthly child support obligation for the month in which the withholding occurs; second, the monthly spousal support obligation for the month in which the withholding occurs; third, the monthly amount necessary to forward to any employment-related group health plan to assure coverage of the children under 15 AAC 125.426; fourth, an amount to be applied to the past-due child and spousal support obligations owed by the obligor, interest, and fees, as provided in the income withholding order.
35. According to 45 CFR §303.32(a), what are your state options?
Either or both parents unless specified in the order.
36. What does your state do if an employee contests 45 CFR §303.32(c)(5)?
There is a request for administrative review attached to the notice of enforcement. There is also a form they can fill out on our website.
37. What is the reporting timeframe (non-magnetic media only)?
Within 20 days of hire date.
38. What are the required data elements?
New Hire Information: Employee name, Employee address, Employee SSN, Employee date of birth, First day of work, State of hire, Employer name, Employer address, FEIN, SEIN;
39. What are the methods of transmission?
Online (state portal), Mail, Fax.
40. Does your state require independent contractor reporting?
No.