New Mississippi policy lets poor parents keep child support payments
“Mississippi has enacted a policy that will allow low-income single parents to keep more money in their pockets.
To qualify for most public assistance programs in Mississippi, single parents, usually women, must sue their kids’ non-custodial parent for child support payments.
But if they have received cash assistance through a federal program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the state seizes those child support dollars to pay itself back for providing welfare.
That means some moms never see the child support money. And the fathers are simply paying into state coffers.”