Ohio Recession and Child Support

Many parents recieve child support depend on that money to help support their children,but this may soon change as many people in Ohio may not be able to their child support. Collections for child support has dropped about $15 million over the year as Ohioians struggle to make their payments due to the recession. Officials are expecting these numbers to get even lower as uneployment benefits start to runout.

More  than $13 million of the state's child support is taken from unemployments checks and that amout will take a hit when thousands of uneployed workers lose their benefits and then they have no money to make child support payments. Unless uneployment gives a extension thousands of people will be without unemployment checks and this leading to no child support payments.

With child support payments expected to decline by about $1 million it is expected that more families will turn to food stamps and other welfare assistance. The child support agencies in Ohio are asking for parents who are unemployed and those who are losing their benefits to contact them so that the amount they have to pay in child support can be lowered as needed.

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