Chipping Away at TANF Cost Recovery: Addressing Inequities in the Child Support Program

Chipping Away at TANF Cost Recovery: Addressing Inequities in the Child Support Program

Author: NCSEA August 28, 2024 Duration: 34:06

This week’s episode comes to you from San Diego, California and Anchorage, Alaska.  On today’s program Tim Lightner (eWorld Enterprise Solutions, Inc.) is pleased to welcome Diana Azevedo-McCaffrey, Policy Analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and on their Housing and Income Security team.  Diana shares about the work that the Center conducts, and how they came to work on child support policy.  Recently Diana co-authored an article with former OCSS Commissioner, Vicki Turetsky titled “Understanding TANF Cost Recovery in the Child Support Program.”  Today’s conversation centers on this topic and provides us with an argument and consensus that it’s time for cost recovery to go away.

Understanding TANF Cost Recovery in the Child Support Program | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (cbpp.org)

Diana Azevedo-McCaffrey | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (cbpp.org)

A second, follow-up paper was published 10/8/24: Directing Child Support Payments to Families, Not Government, Would Help Families Afford Basic Needs and Thrive | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (cbpp.org)


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