Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt Demonstration (PJAC)

ICR 202005-0970-014

OMB: 0970-0505

Federal Form Document

Forms and Documents
Document
Name
Status
Justification for No Material/Nonsubstantive Change
2020-05-27
Supporting Statement A
2020-05-27
Supplementary Document
2020-02-06
Supplementary Document
2020-02-06
Supplementary Document
2020-02-06
Supplementary Document
2020-02-06
Supplementary Document
2020-02-06
Supplementary Document
2020-02-06
Supplementary Document
2020-02-06
Supporting Statement B
2020-05-27
ICR Details
0970-0505 202005-0970-014
Historical Active 202002-0970-003
HHS/ACF OCSE
Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt Demonstration (PJAC)
No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved without change 05/29/2020
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 05/27/2020
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
04/30/2023 04/30/2023 04/30/2023
3,920 0 3,920
2,310 0 2,310
0 0 0

The purpose of the Procedural Justice Informed Alternatives to Contempt Demonstration (PJAC) demonstration project is to assess the feasibility and efficacy of incorporating principles of procedural justice into child support services as a cost-effective alternative to civil contempt proceedings. The PJAC Demonstration will add to the evidence base on innovations in child support practices by evaluating PJAC’s impacts and determining whether the benefits of PJAC services exceed their costs. The PJAC Evaluation includes three key components: an implementation study, an impact study, and a benefit-cost study. The coronavirus pandemic and related economic fallout require modifications to some of the approved data collection approaches and protocols. This nonsubstantive change request is for changes to Instruments 3, 4 and 7. Instrument 3: Staff Interview Topic Guide. Due to travel restrictions, we now plan to complete the remaining interviews by videoconference, as opposed to in-person. The instrument and supporting statements have been updated to reflect this change in mode. Instrument 4: Noncustodial Parent Participant Interview Protocol and Instrument 7: Custodial Parent Interview Protocol. These interviews have already been cleared for in-person or phone modalities; in light of travel restrictions, they will be conducted by phone only. Several questions in the proposed revised interviews would directly touch on aspects of parents’ lives that have likely been affected by the coronavirus. These are employment, relationships with children and the other parent, and changes to how child support agencies and courts handle child support cases. In order to gather sufficient information to understand the effect of the pandemic on these key topics for the evaluation, questions and probes related to coronavirus have been added to the protocols. These questions and probes will allow the research team some insights into (1) how the public health crisis may have affected PJAC treatment and business-as-usual services from the vantage point of parents, thus effecting the treatment contrast for this random assignment study and (2) how the social and economic context of the pandemic may affect employment and family relationships, which may in turn affect child support payments, the evaluation’s main outcome of interest. Estimated average time to complete these interviews will remain the same.

US Code: 42 USC 1315 Name of Law: Section 1115 of the Social Security Act
  
None

Not associated with rulemaking

  84 FR 20891 05/13/2019
85 FR 7762 02/11/2020
No

  Total Approved Previously Approved Change Due to New Statute Change Due to Agency Discretion Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses 3,920 3,920 0 0 0 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 2,310 2,310 0 0 0 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 0 0 0 0 0 0
No
No
The key reason for changes in burden is to request additional information collection. The request also updates burden for previously approved information collections to reflect completed data collection and an update to the sample size target.

$656,666
Yes Part B of Supporting Statement
    Yes
    No
No
No
No
Yes
Molly Buck 202 205-4724 mary.buck@acf.hhs.gov

  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.
05/27/2020


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