NMI’s Brown urges Congress to maintain child support funding

Posted on Nov 09 2005

CNMI Attorney General Pam Brown has joined the attorney generals of the District of Columbia as well as other states within the United States to urge the U.S. Congress not to slash federal child support funding.

The attorney generals have joined together to express their “opposition to provisions in the House Ways and Means Committee’s recent reconciliation recommendations that would seriously jeopardize the proven ability of state child support programs to promote the goals of welfare reform.”

If the proposed reductions in federal funding take effect, “[s]tate child support programs will be unable to maintain their current level of performance.”

Although the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands does not receive direct federal funding for child support enforcement, the children and custodial parents in the Commonwealth benefit from the Child Support Services programs, which enforce child support obligations of non-CNMI resident parents for children living in the Commonwealth. (PR)

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