Health and Human Services
5175 Department of Child Support Services

The mission of the California Child Support Program is to promote the well-being of children and the self-sufficiency of families by assisting both parents to meet the financial, medical, and emotional needs of their children through the delivery of quality child support establishment, collection, and distribution services.

The statewide Child Support Program is founded on a belief that California's children have the right to be supported by both parents financially, medically and emotionally. More.....

MAJOR PROGRAM CHANGES Back to Top
  • Increase Child Support Pass-Through: The Governor's Budget proposes to change the amount of collected child support passed through to CalWORKs families to $100 per month effective January 1, 2009. The current pass through of $50 is not counted as income or resources for the purposes of CalWORKs eligibility. The Federal Deficit Reduction Act allows states to increase the pass through with the federal government participating in fifty percent of the revenue loss effective October 1, 2008. The increased federal participation will result in increased General Fund revenues of $3.9 million in 2008-09. Once the pass-through is increased on January 1, 2009, it will be revenue neutral compared to current practice.

 BUDGET-BALANCING REDUCTIONS Back to Top
  • The Budget includes reductions of $200,000 General Fund in 2007-08 and $4.3 million General Fund and 45.0 positions in 2008-09.
PROGRAMS Back to Top
The following table presents total proposed budget year positions and expenditures for each budgeted program area. These expenditures include all funding sources that support the state agency's programs.
Code Program
 Proposed
2008-09*
Positions
Dollars
10 Child Support Services Program
548.0
$1,055,060
Totals, Positions and Expenditures (excluding Infrastructure)
548.0
$1,055,060
 
 Infrastructure Expenditures
-
-
Totals, Positions and All Expenditures
548.0
$1,055,060

Refer to the Program Descriptions for a description of programs operated by this state agency.

Refer to the 3-Yr Expenditures & Positions for expenditures, positions, and funding detail.
PRINTABLE BUDGET DOCUMENTS Back to Top
The following identifies budget documents for this state agency that are available in a printable (pdf) format.

Entire Department of Child Support Services Budget (pdf * - 210K) in pdf format.
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of all budget information for this state agency. Note: Along with other information, this document includes the documents listed below.

 Detail of Appropriations and Adjustments ONLY (pdf * - 5K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the detail of appropriations and adjustments for this state agency.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Back to Top
Legal Citations and Authority
Includes the legal citations (state statutes, federal statutes, and court orders) for operation of department programs and activities.
Child Support Program Collections (pdf * - 189K)
Provides information on child support collections by category.