Posted on 07/04/2023 3:52:33 AM PDT by Libloather
The California Reparations Task Force is asking the Democrat-controlled state legislature to eliminate interest on past-due child support, as well as any back child support debt for Black residents of the state.
In its final report released last week, the group claimed "discriminatory" laws "have torn African American families apart," and that one effect of that is the "harms" caused by "the disproportionate amount of African Americans who are burdened with child support debt."
The nearly 1,100-page document stated that Black Californians represent a larger percentage of those who owe child support debt than their proportion of the state's population.
It also claimed the 10% interest the state charges on back child support "hinders" their ability to finance further education, attend job training, find employment and maintain housing because of the legal consequences of not paying such debt.
The report cited a 2003 California Department of Child Support Services study that estimated 27% of owed child support in the state was unpaid interest, that those who owed child support had lower incomes than "the typical California worker" and that such interest required a larger portion of their income to actually pay the debt.
"The Task Force recommends that the Legislature enact legislation to terminate all interest accrued on back child support, requiring only the payment of the principal owed. At a minimum, the proposal recommends that the Legislature eliminate the prospective accrual of interest on child support debt for low-income parents," the report said.
"The Task Force further recommends that the Legislature amend Family Code section 17560, the 'offers in compromise' provision, to allow for offers in compromise and forgiveness of child support debt based solely on a parent’s fnancial (sic) circumstances and ability to pay," it added.
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The Reparations Committee will let the little bastards starve to death in the dark?
Translation: it’s not your fault if you make babies without raisin’ ‘em. At least if you’re black, because us Dims know you can’t help it.
Insanity has no bounds.
Hell no! That's the job of Republicans...
/sarc
I wonder how many baby daddies actually pay child support? DNA labs would be tied up for a decade trying to sort it out.
Reparations is an absurd concept. If they want repatriation to their ancestral homelands, fine. Otherwise, they should assimulate in to the US as equals, which is what we've been trying for generations and what I thought we were until recently, generally accomplishing.
“...eliminating child support debt for Black residents”
That’s fair to all the other non black residents.
California should give reparations to all the slaves that lived there prior to the Civil War.
Fun fact: There were zero. CA was never a slave state.
Absurdity knows no bounds.
The intent is for the government to pay.
gov = taxes (OPM)
I identify as a black resident of Califorinia: please give me my unicorns and lollipops!
This is NOT insanity.
It is sheer, unadulterated evil.
And makes perfect sense if you’re Deep State.
The more deadbeats dads, broken families, kids reliant on welfare, the better for Deep State.
Deep State is waging a war on nuclear families.
This is part of it.
This is not what it appears to be, i.e. money taken out of the child’s hands. If you have a job and can complete a pay-off within five years, you may be able to get interest waived. All payments will then be applied to the back child support instead of to the interest. So what the state is doing is reducing the payment interest into directly paying the child if the payee qualifies.
The Debt Reduction Program provides eligible parents with past-due child support payments the opportunity to reduce the amount they owe to the government. This debt, called “arrears,” is owed to the government if their dependent children received public assistance (welfare) or were in foster care while the payee was not paying court-ordered child support. So basically what this program is is the state writing off and transferring a debt they are awarded. And since they are carrying it on the books and in most cases won’t collect. The program will not reduce unpaid child support that is owed directly to the person receiving support and the payer can only reduce the amount they owe the taxpayers.
Info on this is here:
https://childsupport.ca.gov/overview/debt-reduction-program/
wy69
More theft by government in-coming.
Next up; the Reps committee will require that the California Bullet Train connect to the JRB trans-Pacific Express. No Smoking Car, but there will be a George Floyd Fentanyl Car.
Is it? Or is it for their mothers nails and hair !!!
Lots of abuse in the ‘child support’ field.
Most of the ‘debt’ goes to lawyers and the courts.
Very little to the children.
and by ‘discriminatory laws’ we mean
1: No fault divorce laws.
2: Excessive child support order laws.
Women were encouraged to get divorced. Their financial reward was their income, their new guys income and 50% of the last guys income.
The divorce courts were HEAVILY biased against men.
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