| To collect child support,
the Department of Healthcare and Family Services works with a number of government agencies
and offices.
State
The Attorney General's office
serves as the department's legal representative on child support
issues in 89 Illinois counties; local state's attorney's offices
perform the same function in the other 13 counties.
The Department of Employment
Security collects names of new employees hired in the state
and shares them with the department for tracking people who owe
child support.
The Comptroller intercepts
state income tax refunds, unemployment and workers' compensation
checks, lottery winnings and other state payments to collect unpaid
child support.
The Division of Insurance
and Professional Regulation
suspend or deny licenses to state professional and occupational
license holders who do not pay child support.
The Department of Public
Health helps to establish paternity and provides information
on non-custodial parents.
The Department of Revenue
uses its tax collection powers to collect child support debts.
The Secretary of
State, working with county officials, suspends driver's licenses
for persons failing to pay child support and provides information
to the department to locate persons owing child support.
County
County
circuit court clerks are the official keepers of child
support records.
County registrars and local health departments help establish paternity
by providing voluntary acknowledgment of paternity forms to unmarried
couples.
County sheriffs serve legal papers on non-custodial parents.
Federal
The Office of Child
Support Enforcement in the Department
of Health and Human Services provides federal funding and administers
federal child support laws, policies and procedures.
The Internal Revenue Service
intercepts federal income tax refunds of persons owing child support
and sends the money to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for distribution.
The Department of State can
deny, revoke or suspend U.S. passports for persons owing more than
$5,000 in child support.
The Department of the Treasury
intercepts some federal payments to collect child support.
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