[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 18, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69382-69383]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-27171]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Income Withholding
Order/Notice for Support (IWO)
AGENCY: Office of Child Support Enforcement, Administration for
Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is
requesting a three-year extension of the form Income Withholding Order/
Notice for Support (IWO) (OMB #0970-0154, expiration 8/31/2020). This
request includes minor revisions to the approved forms.
DATES: Comments due within 60 days of publication. In compliance with
the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and Families is soliciting
public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection
described above.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the proposed collection of information can be
obtained and comments may be forwarded by emailing
[email protected]. Alternatively, copies can also be obtained
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of
Planning, Research and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW, Washington, DC
20201, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. All requests, emailed or
written, should be identified by the title of the information
collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The IWO is the standard form that must be used to
order and notify employers and income providers to withhold child
support payments from an obligor's income. It also indicates where
employers and other income providers must remit the payments and other
information needed to withhold correctly.
Child support agencies, courts, private attorneys, custodial
parties, and others must use the IWO form to initiate an income
withholding order for support and give notice of income withholding.
State child support agencies are required to have automated data
processing systems containing current order and case information. State
child support agencies providing services to custodial and/or
noncustodial parties enter the terms of a child support order
established by a tribunal into the state's automated system, which
automatically populates the order information into the IWO form.
Employers and income providers also use the form to respond to the
order/notice with termination or income status information. Employers
and other income providers may choose to receive the IWO form from
child support agencies on paper or electronically, and may respond on
paper or electronically to notify the sender of termination of
employment or change in the income status.
The information collection activities pertaining to the IWO form
are authorized by 42 U.S.C. 666(a)(1), (a)(8), and 666(b)(6), which
require the use of the IWO form to order income withholding for all
child support orders.
The IWO form and instructions include these proposed changes:
1. Changed effective date from a calendar date to a text entry.
This clarifies that IWOs are effective on either the date of mailing,
receipt, or service to the employer.
2. Added a textbox in Remittance Information regarding payments in
interstate cases.
3. Simplified and consolidated wording of required advices to
employers and moved some of them from Additional Information into
Remittance Information.
4. Moved a link to the Child Support Portal within Additional
Information to
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Lump Sum Payments and added one to Notice of Employment Termination or
Income Status.
Respondents: Courts, private attorneys, custodial parties or their
representatives, employers, and other parties that provide income to
noncustodial parents.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Instrument Total number responses per Average burden hours per Annual burden
of respondents respondent response hours
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Income withholding order/notice 4,091,591 1.00 5 minutes................ 340,966
(courts, private attorneys,
custodial parties or their
representatives).
Income withholding orders/termination 1,257,639 9.07 2 minutes................ 380,226
of employment/income status
(employers and other income
providers).
Electronic income withholding orders/ 17,985 101.73 30 seconds............... 15,247
termination of employment/income
status (employers and other income
providers).
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 736,439.
Comments: The Department specifically requests comments on (a)
whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether
the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection
of information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 666(a)(1),(a)(8), and 666(b)(6).
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-27171 Filed 12-17-19; 8:45 am]
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