New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 50 - CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM
Part 125 - FEES, PAYMENTS, AND DISTRIBUTIONS
Section 8.50.125.16 - CHILD LEVEL ACCOUNTING

An application for public assistance by any person constitutes an assignment by operation of law of any support rights the person is entitled to from any other person, whether the support rights are owed to the applicant or to any family member for whom the applicant is applying for or receiving assistance. Therefore, in current or former assistance cases, the IV-D agency may not use child-level accounting by splitting or pro-rating the family grant amount on a per-child basis when the child is (or was) included in the family unit and must continue to apply collections to the cumulative amount of unreimbursed assistance balances based on the total monthly family grant amount.