Ohio Administrative Code
Title 5101:9 - ODJFS Practices
Chapter 5101:9-6 - Allocations
Section 5101:9-6-30 - Child support performance incentive payments
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 5101:9-6-30
Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) The Ohio department of job and family services (ODJFS) issues performance incentive payments to child support enforcement agencies (CSEA) to provide additional funding for the Title IV-D program.
(B) Federal child support incentive distribution.
(1) The United States department
of health and human services (HHS) distributes to the ODJFS an estimated annual
incentive payment amount at the beginning of each federal fiscal year.
Following the end of each fiscal year ODJFS submits required expenditure and
performance data to HHS. Using this data, HHS calculates the actual annual
incentive payment amount earned by the state. Actual payment amounts are
contingent on data being determined to be complete and reliable by federal
auditors. The final reconciled amount includes necessary adjustments resulting
from previous incentive overpayments or underpayments to ODJFS from the federal
government pursuant to the processes described at 45 C.F.R. 305, as in effect
March 1, 2020.
(2) ODJFS distributes incentive payments to
the CSEA each month based on the estimated annual incentive payment amount Ohio
receives from HHS during the federal fiscal year (FFY).
(a) ODJFS retains funds from the federal
incentives in accordance with rule
5101:12-1-54 of
the Administrative Code.
(b) ODJFS
distributes estimated incentive payments to the CSEA in accordance with rule
5101:12-1-54.1 of the Administrative Code.
(3) The actual amount of incentives is
determined during the annual incentive reconciliation process at the end of the
calendar year. ODJFS performs a comparison between the estimated annual
incentive payment amounts and the actual federal incentives earned by the state
at the end of the calendar year.
(a) ODJFS
adjusts the CSEA incentive payment if the estimated amount exceeds the actual
amount earned by the state and a deficiency exists.
(b) ODJFS makes a one-time payment to the
CSEA through the administrative advance process if the actual amount earned
exceeds the estimated amount and a surplus exists.
(C) Federal child support incentive use.
(1) The CSEA shall spend funds
only for allowable Title IV-D expenditures, in accordance with section
5101.23 of the Revised Code and
45
C.F.R. 305.35, as in effect
March 1, 2020. A request to spend incentives on
activities not eligible for funding under the Title IV-D program may be
submitted to ODJFS. ODJFS will review the request and may submit the proposal,
as appropriate, to HHS for approval.
(2) The CSEA shall not use federal child
support incentives:
(a) To earn additional
federal funds; or
(b) As the
nonfederal share/child support match requirement. The CSEA must expend all
incentive funds at one-hundred percent on allowable IV-D activities.
(3) The CSEA shall report Title
IV-D expenditures paid with incentives in accordance with rule
5101:9-7-29
of the Administrative Code using coding established by ODJFS for that
purpose.
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