DCSS Responsibilities for DCSS Cooperation
The Division of Child Support Services (DCSS) is responsible for completing the following:
●Determining cooperation with DCSS for new CA participants
●Keying ATLAS with the date of cooperation when the new CA participant complies
NOTE When DCSS keys ATLAS, the APPD DATE OF AF COOPERATION field is auto-populated with the DCSS date of compliance.
When a child support order is established by DCSS, DCSS does not retain support monies for certain CA cases. DCSS passes through child support monies to the following budgetary units:
●CA budgetary units with a nonparent caretaker relative as the PI who is coded OU on SEPA.
●CA budgetary units when the following DCSS Cooperation Code is keyed in the AF COOPERATION CODE field on APPD:
G3 (pending adoption)
G4 (possible adoption)
G5 (conceived by sexual assault)
G6 (conceived by incest)
●Tribal TANF Program cases. Tribal TANF Programs do not have an agreement with DCSS to pursue child support for their participants.
●CA budgetary units with the EX DCSS Cooperation Code (exempt) keyed in the AF COOPERATION CODE field on APPD.
●Grant Diversion budgetary units.
●CA budgetary units that include an SSI child. When there are other children in the budgetary unit, only the portion intended for the SSI child is passed through.
●CA budgetary units that include a Benefit Capped (BC) child. When there are other children in the budgetary unit, only the portion for the BC child is passed through.