Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) This rule
describes the support enforcement program services and IV-D services for which
a child support enforcement agency (CSEA) may request federal financial
participation (FFP) reimbursement.
FFP reimbursement is available for reasonable and necessary
CSEA expenditures for services and activities provided in a IV-D case and
properly attributable to the operation of the support enforcement program. FFP
reimbursement principles are based upon the general principles for determining
allowable costs described in 2 C.F.R., subtitle A, chapter II, part
200
(12/26/2013) (circular A-87 of the federal office of management and
budget). The current FFP reimbursement rate is sixty-six per
cent.
(B) The following
definition applies to this rule and its supplemental rule:
"Arrest" means taking an individual into physical custody
pursuant to a court-issued process and transporting that person to the court
that ordered his or her arrest. It does not include incarceration, arraignment,
and other activities that may occur as the result of an arrest.
(C) CSEA expenditures for the
following services are eligible for FFP reimbursement when provided in a IV-D
case:
(1) Support enforcement program
services, which include:
(a) Location
services;
(b) Establishment of
parentage;
(c) Establishment and
modification of child support orders and medical support orders;
(d) Enforcement of support orders;
(e) Collection of support obligations;
and
(f) Any other actions
appropriate to child support enforcement, which include but are not limited to:
(i) Monitoring the progress of program
development and operations and evaluating the quality, efficiency,
effectiveness, and scope of support enforcement program services available in
the county;
(ii) The establishment
of all necessary IV-D contracts with a private or governmental entity for the
provision of IV-D services where the IV-D contract is established in accordance
with rules
5101:12-1-80
to 5101:12-1-80.4 of the Administrative Code;
(iii) The direct cost of reasonable and
essential short-term training provided to CSEA staff;
(iv) The development and maintenance of
fiscal and program records and reports required to be made to the Ohio
department of job and family services;
(v) Expenditures for general administrative
costs (e.g., salaries, supplies, and equipment); and
(vi) The establishment and maintenance of
case records.
(2) IV-D services, which include:
(a) Federal income tax refund offset
submittals for the collection of support arrears;
(b) Withholding of unemployment compensation
for the payment of support;
(c)
Requests to the internal revenue service for the disclosure of taxpayer
information for use in establishing and collecting support
obligations;
(d) Requests to the
internal revenue service for the collection of delinquent support;
and
(e) Requests to use the U.S.
district courts when another state has failed to enforce an Ohio court support
order.
(3) The purchase
of IV-D services when the services are purchased under a IV-D contract in
accordance with rules
5101:12-1-80
to 5101:12-1-80.4 of the Administrative Code, including but not limited to:
(a) Reasonable and essential short-term
training of court and law enforcement staff assigned on a full- or part-time
basis to support enforcement functions;
(b) Service of process and court filing fees
when the court or law enforcement agency would normally be required to pay the
cost of such fees;
(c) Costs
incurred while making an arrest that is necessary to enforce a support
obligation;
(d) Service of process
fees, when the CSEA obtains written verification from the sheriff that the
sheriff charges other agencies service of process fees; and
(e) Sheriff's office personnel and equipment
costs, when the costs are necessary to complete service of process
activities.
(D)
The CSEA shall comply with the rules set forth in division 5101:9 of the
Administrative Code.
