The Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, Section 324,
requires the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) to
develop a standardized form to collect child support payments from
an obligor's employer. The form, which promotes standardization,
expires 5/31/2007, and ACF is taking this opportunity to revise the
form and its instructions.
PL:
Pub.L. 104 - 193 324 Name of Law: Personal Responsibility and
Work Opportunity Reconcillation Act of 1996
OCSE is requesting a revision
to the previous clearance. The annual hour burden has been
eliminated on state child support enforcement agencies, tribes and
courts since submission of the 2007 version of this form due to
increased use of technology and that the information collection is
accounted for in OMB # 0980-0271 which addresses information
collection for CSE systems and therefore eliminated the calculation
of 221,095 burden hours submitted in the last form revision. The
proposed form and instruction changes were made for consistency and
clarity in light of numerous comments suggesting the changes and
are captured in Appendix G. OCSE's initiative to facilitate the
electronic transmission of Income Withholding for Support forms
(e-IWO) between CSE agencies and employers/income withholders has
become more widely used since 2007. Currently used by 22 states and
over 100 employers/income withholders, the e-IWO initiative
decreases costs and increases child support collections. As the
number of transmissions sent via e-IWO increases, CSE agencies and
employers will experience even more cost savings. Previous
iterations of the IWO omitted employers and CPs or attorneys or
PCAs issuing IWOs on behalf of CPs as respondents; however, upon
further review it has been determined that the impact on employers
and CPs should be included in this information collection. This is
based on the requirement that employers complete the "Notification
of Termination/Income Status" section of the IWO and that CPs or
attorneys or PCAs issuing IWOs on behalf of CPs do not have the
information required to complete the IWO contained in an automated
system and therefore are required to manually issue IWOs to
employers/income withholders. The annual burden estimates for
employers and CPs is captured in section A12. Although the burden
for states, courts and tribes was eliminated, the employers and
Non-IV-D CPs were added to this clearance, increasing the estimated
total annual burden hours from 221,095 to 476,351
$0
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Robert Sargis
2026907275
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form Attachment A Non-IV-D-CPs
Attachment G - Summary of Comments-Responses.doc
Attachment H - Safeguarding and Disclosure of Confidential Information.pdf
IWO