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Child Support Services - Program Basics Topic of CRS Report
May 12, 2025
WASHINGTON, May 12 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. RS22380) on March 18, 2025, entitled "Child Support Services: Program Basics" by social policy specialist Jessica Tollestrup.

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SUMMARY

The Child Support program was enacted in 1975 as a federal-state program (Title IV-D of the Social Security Act). It was originally referred to as the Child Support Enforcement program and . . .

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