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2022-23 & 2023-24 NCDHHS/COUNTY MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT CHILD SUPPORT PERFORMANCE MEASURES dint Child Support w Services WHAT ARE THE PERFORMANCE MEASURES? In 2017, the North Carolina General Assembly passed the Family/Child Accountability and Protection Act/ Rylan's Law - Session Law 2017-41. The law requires all counties to enter into an annual agreement with the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) for all social services programs excluding medical assistance (NC Medicaid). The goal of the annual agreements is to support the provision of consistent, quality child welfare and social services that ensure the safety, health and well-being of children,adults and families served across North Carolina. The law requires the agreement to contain performance requirements and administrative responsibilities. This fact sheet is one of six fact sheets describing the 21 performance measures in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 Memorandum of Agreement. The six fact sheets address: 1) Adult Services, 2) Child Support Services, 3) Child Welfare Services, 4) Energy Programs, 5) Food and Nutrition Services,and 6) Work First Services. Why Were These Child Support Measures Selected? The NCDHHS-County Memorandum of Agreement includes four child support performance measures. The aim of the performance measures is to ensure that child support is a reliable, accessible source of income so that custodial families can become self-sufficient. Studies have shown that policies to collect child support not only increase financial resources to families, but their impact on payments increase visitation and contact between the children and their parents. BASIS The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Acts (PRWORA) of 1996, Section 454 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 654), 42 U.S.C. 658a(b)(6), Public Law 105-200, Section 201, and N.C.G.S. 110-129.1(a)(9)establish guidelines for performance and an incentive system to provide additional payments to any State based on its performance under the program. The Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998 (CSPIA) (Public Law 105-200, Section 201) provides the legal basis for the incentive award system. The purpose of Title IV-D incentives is to reward child support programs for good performance results, while holding these programs accountable for poor performance. Eligibility for and the amount of incentive funding depends on all of the following: • The total amount of federal funds that are available for a fiscal year. • The state performance levels in five program service areas (paternity establishment, support establishment, current support payments, payments toward arrearages, and cost effectiveness). The federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) distributes a shared pool of federal incentive funds to the states each year. To receive these funds, states must reach a specific level of performance for each of these program service areas. • The reliability of the state's data as determined by OCSE's annual Data Reliability Audit (DRA). States must prove that their child support collection data in their computer systems is ninety-five percent (95%) reliable and accurate, based on the DRA (pursuant to 45 CFR 305). • The relative performance levels of other states. lof3