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Child Support Services

Program Information

Popular name

Child Support Services

Program Number

93.563

Program objective

The purpose of this program is to enforce the support obligations owed by absent parents to their children, locate absent parents, establish paternity, and obtain child, spousal and medical support.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    54 grants are expected to be awarded to States and Territories 54 grants were awarded to States and Territories.

  2. 2018

    54 grants were awarded to States and Territories.

  3. 2019

    54 grants were awarded to States and Territories.

  4. 2020

    54 grants are expected to be awarded to States and Territories.

  5. 2021

    54 grants awarded to States and Territories.

  6. 2022

    54 grants are expected to be awarded to States and Territories

  7. 2023

    54 grants awarded to States and Territories

  8. 2024

    54 grants awarded to States and Territories

  9. 2025

    54 grants are expected to be awarded to States and Territories

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

45 CFR, Chapter III Part 300, Child Support Enforcement Program 45 CFR Part 16, Procedures of the Departmental Appeals Board 45 CFR Part 75, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for HHS Awards 45 CFR Part 95, Grant Programs (Public Assistance, Medical Assistance and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs) 45 CFR Part 213, Practice and Procedure for Hearings to States on Conformity of Public Assistance Plans to Federal Requirements.

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