Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 67 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Part III - Economic Stability
Subpart 4 - Child Support Enforcement
Chapter 25 - Support Enforcement
Subchapter J - State Lottery Offset
Section III-2535 - Assignment of Lottery Winnings by Support Enforcement Services
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Effective May 1992, the Department of Social Services, Office of Family Support, shall implement interception of lottery winnings from the Louisiana Lottery Corporation of a delinquent support payor.
B. Support Enforcement Services will send to the Louisiana Lottery Corporation a monthly list of child support payors who are delinquent in their child support payments. If a delinquent support payor wins a lottery prize of $600 or more, the Lottery Corporation will deduct the amount of child support arrears reported by SES from the lottery winnings and then submit the deducted amount to SES.
C. Support Enforcement Services will apply the intercepted winnings amount first to any unpaid monthly obligation and then to any outstanding arrears as of the date the intercepted winnings are posted to the delinquent support payor's child support cases(s).
D. A delinquent support payor with more than one case with outstanding arrears shall have his lottery winnings prorated to each case based on the unpaid monthly obligation plus arrearage due in each case as a percentage of the total unpaid monthly obligations plus arrearage due in all cases.
E. Any intercepted amounts which exceed the amount of unpaid monthly obligation plus arrearage in all cases on the date the intercepted winnings are posted will be refunded to the support payor in a prompt manner.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 47:9026.
