Family Support Programs

We're working to protect and strengthen child support enforcement and other family support programs that help women escape poverty and make ends meet.

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Legal Briefs & Testimony | Written Statement of Joan Entmacher Before the Subcommittee on Social Security, House Committee on Ways and Means: Impact of the New Employee Verification Act (HR 5515) on Child Support Enforcement

May 08, 2008
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Coalition Action Materials | Letter to Senators Rockefeller, Cornyn, Kohl, Snow, and Coleman: Support Bill to Restore Funding for Child Support Enforcement

March 07, 2007

The National Women's Law Center joined with the Center for Law and Social Policy and the Coalition on Human Needs to send a letter of support to Senators Rockefeller, Cornyn, Kohl, Snow, and Coleman for their work to restore funding for child support enforcement.

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Reports & Toolkits | Dollars and Sense: Improving the Determination of Child Support Obligations for Low-Income Mothers, Fathers and Children

June 09, 2002

Dollars and Sense is the second report from the Common Ground Project, a unique collaboration between the National Women's Law Center and the Center on Fathers, Families and Public Policy. This report presents several policy recommendations designed to improve the way child support awards for low-income families are set and adjusted, and the way arrearages are handled, to increase the ability of low-income parents to support their children and themselves.

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Legal Briefs & Testimony | Joan Entmacher Before the Subcommittee on Human Resources, House Committee on Ways and Means, Hearing on Child Support and Fatherhood Proposals

June 28, 2001

Invited testimony by Joan Entmacher explains the benefits of changing child support and welfare rules to give families more of the child support paid on their behalf, rather than giving it the federal and state governments to reimburse welfare costs.

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Reports & Toolkits | Family Ties: Improving Paternity Establishment Practices and Procedures for Low-Income Mothers, Fathers and Children

June 09, 2000

Family Ties is the first in a series of reports from the Common Ground Project, a unique collaboration between the National Women's Law Center and the Center on Fathers, Families and Public Policy. It presents policy recommendations on paternity establishment that are more responsive to the diverse and complex circumstances of low-income mothers, fathers and children.

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