Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Children and Families
DCF 101-199 - Family and Economic Security
Chapter DCF 153 - Child support incentive payments
Section DCF 153.08 - Distribution and use of incentive payments

(1) The department shall distribute the total available incentive funding under s. 49.24, Stats., to counties and to tribes or tribal organizations eligible under sub. (2).

(2) A tribe or tribal organization that enters into a cooperative agreement with the department for the delivery of child support services under the state plan pursuant to 42 USC 654(33) shall receive an incentive payment under this chapter based on the same criteria and subject to the same restrictions as counties carrying out activities under the state plan. A tribe or tribal organization that receives direct tribal child support enforcement funding pursuant to 42 USC 655(f) may not receive an incentive payment under this chapter.

(3) The total state and federal incentive payments to a county per year under s. 49.24, Stats., may not exceed the costs per year of the county's child support program under s. 49.22, Stats.

(4) A county that receives any state or federal incentive payments under s. 49.24, Stats., may use the funds only to pay costs under its child support program under s. 49.22, Stats.

(5) A county that receives any state or federal incentive payments under s. 49.24, Stats., may use the funds only to supplement, and not supplant, the baseline level of county funding for its child support program as determined by averaging the county's contribution to its IV-D expenditures in calendar years 1996, 1997, and 1998, unless waived by the department. The department will waive this subsection if the state is in compliance with 45 CFR 305.35.