The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) requires child support automated systems to be able to automatically generate and download data to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved IWO form. The collection of information required by state child support agencies and courts to populate IWOs in automated systems is contained in OMB #0970–0417 and is not addressed in this clearance. If the state child support agency established the child support orders, necessary information is already contained in the automated system for populating income withholding orders. If a court or other tribunal issued a child support order, then IV–D agency staff enter the terms of the order into the automated system to issue IWOs. Copies of the IWO are made for all necessary parties and state child support agencies transmit IWOs to the employer/income withholder by mail or through the OCSE electronic income withholding order (e-IWO) portal. Employers are required to inform state child support agencies when employees with child support IWOs terminate their employment; notification occurs by sending the IWO form or by the e-IWO process. Employer responses to IWOs are covered by this clearance.
Custodial parties (CPs) may send the IWO form to an employer directly or may engage an attorney or private collection agency to do so on their behalf. This clearance addresses custodial parties as they do not have access to automated systems for non-IV–D orders.
The IWO form and instructions were updated for consistency and clarity in light of numerous comments suggesting changes received during the 60-day comment period of the 1st
The information collection is authorized by 42 U.S.C. 666(a)(8)(B)(iii) and (b)(6)(A)(ii) which requires the use of a standard format for income withholding.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 519,300.