PRIVATIZATION OF CHILD SUPPORT

Around 1992, the first active ideas of privatizing child support was considered. The thought of having civilian contractors helping the social welfare programs to enforce Child Support and free up government workers to concentrate on reducing case loads and focus more on quality of managing. case loads for child support specialist was and is astonishing. For once it seem like DSS was going to be able to get back to reasonable case load sizes; and be able to provide quality management of court case loads. Most workers workers wondered would court caseloads and enforcement ever reduce to a manageable level. Personally, I saw it as an opportunity and chance for better management of case loads and court enforcement too. Also a chance to get to other things within the Department. To me, it seamless idea for progress for (CSES Child Support Enforcement Services, a Division of Dept. of Health and Human Services).

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HISTORY OF PRIVATIZATION

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HISTORY

Even though the idea floated around for a few years, it wasn’t until 1996 that the floating idea would get a life-line and be attempted by the Department of Health and Human Services. However, Social Services didn’t decide to enter into an agreement with anyone until 1997 which allowed private companies to assist in the enforcement and recovery process associated with collecting child support monies. One of the first companies to accomplish this goal was Lockheed-Martin IMS. At the time Lockheed Martin was known as one of the largest defense contractors in the United States. The company would enter this venture by helping Florida Social Services CSE by taking over its case management division. Other state and government agencies waited in anticipation, eager to comply with this new idea of enforcement and collection being run by civilian contractors.

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SOLUTIONS TO PRIVATIZATION

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USING CONTRACTORS AS A SOLUTION

Those agencies were enthusiastic, hoping that a general contractor would be competent enough to completely take over this responsibility with a more thorough approach to the problem, and would also be better equipped to handle the task bringing more advanced resources than the government was accustomed to achieving this goal. Lockheed Martin was armed with good intentions but lacked the knowledge and experience to help these children awaiting their monthly allotments. The disaster that Lockheed caused would delay other contractors from following suit until some years later. However as the program started to evolve with substantial success from private industry collections; the pursuit of non-custodial parents had taken on a new meaning. Companies like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon had become allies with law enforcement by merging technology with enforcement. This reduced the time it took to collect and increased general collections. The governments quest to recover funds paid through the Department of Social Services – Temporary Assistance Programs now had the glamorized notion of hopeful reimbursement. As the government allowed collection and enforcement by private industry to bring in record profits associated with recovery reform, the Dept of HHS now had the manpower and resources needed to effectively establish and enforce more cases.

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