Child Support Collection Facts
- In 2005, California had 2,052,016 children owed
a total dollar amount of $19 Billion dollars.
- Currently approximately 44% of this support is being collected, leaving 56% or approximately $9.5 Billion uncollected.
- Monterey County has 25,000 cases of child support that require assistance with collections.
- These cases require an annual expense of $11.5 million dollars from the County budget.
- On average, each case represents 2 to 6 children, so possibly, almost 100,000 children — 25% of our entire population — whose quality of life is affected by nonpayment of child support.
- Nonpayment of support is the reason 1 in every 5 children lives in poverty.
- Nine out of ten children on welfare are owed child support.
- 50% of Caucasian children, 60% of all Hispanic children and 70% of all Black children growing up in single parent households live at or below the poverty level.
- The poorest Californians are no longer the elderly; they are children of single parent households headed primarily by women: single moms are 8 times more likely to live in poverty than married couples.
- 98% of juvenile offenders come from single parent homes where child support is not received.
* Monterey County is representative of every California County with similar demographics.
