Jefferson Co. Prosecutor's Office Promoting Child Support Awareness

Friday, August 28, 2020 at 10:58 AM

By Jefferson County Prosecutors Office, news release

This represented the highest percentage increase in collections in all 92 counties in Indiana.

(Madison, Ind.) - August is National Child Support Awareness Month. Organizations involved with the child support system, including the Prosecutor’s Office, are partnering this month to support Hoosier families and bring attention to Indiana’s child support programming and resources. The Indiana Child Support Program is overseen by the Child Support Bureau of the Indiana Department of Child Services.

The Bureau contracts with local prosecutor’s offices to administer the program and provide enforcement of child support orders. As your County Prosecutor, I participate in this program, and my office takes the responsibility seriously. We provide a variety of services at no cost to participants at the local office designed to get child support dollars to families, including:

Locating non-custodial parents
Establishing paternity
Establishing and modifying child support and medical support orders
Enforcing payment of child support

Approximately 250,000 families participate in Indiana’s Child Support Program, but experts estimate that’s only half the number of families that could benefit. Locally, we service approximately 900 families. Last year, my office collected over $2.3 million in child support for the children of our community. This represented the highest percentage increase in collections in all 92 counties in Indiana.

I hope that by promoting the services of the child support program, we can assist more local families with the support they are owed. We make it easy to enroll. You can get started by contacting our office in person at 315 E 2nd St in Madison, by phone at (812) 265-8932, or you can visit our website at https://jeffersoncounty.in.gov/260/Prosecutors-Office. You can also find more information about the Child Support Program by visiting www.childsupport.in.gov or call the Kidsline, Indiana’s child support customer service center, at 800-840-8757.