Child support necessary for family care

August is Child Support Awareness month. It is a time to raise awareness about an income support program that helps millions of children and families.

Child support is payments one parent makes to the child’s other parent or legal guardian to help with the costs of raising the child. The payor may be the mother or the father of the child.

In 2022, child-support programs nationwide collected $30.5 billion and served 12.8 million children or one in five children in the United States.

Ohio’s child support program helps children get the financial and medical support they are legally entitled to receive. The program is administered by the county child-support enforcement agencies. Services provided include paternity establishment, establishment and enforcement of financial and medical support orders, collection and disbursement of support payments, interstate and

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intergovernmental child support services, location services, and review and adjustment of support orders.

Some of the things child support helps a family pay for are food,