IM-03-03, A Quick Guide To Working With The Military As An Employer

INFORMATION MEMORANDUM

IM-03-03

DATE: January 27, 2003

TO: State Agencies Administering Child Support Enforcement Plans Under Title IV-D Of The Social Security Act and Other Interested Individuals

SUBJECT: A Quick Guide To Working With The Military As An Employer

BACKGROUND: OCSE and the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) have collaborated on producing A Quick Guide to Working with the Military as an Employer as part of our ongoing efforts to improve the exchange of information between DoD and state and local Child Support Enforcement agencies. This publication is one chapter in OCSE’s Working with Federal Agencies as Employers, which is currently being updated.

ISSUES: A Quick Guide to Working with the Military as an Employer covers several child support issues including:

Locate services and employment verification,
Income-withholding orders,
Medical support orders, and
Payments.

WEB SITE: A Quick Guide to Working with the Military as an Employer, which is attached as a resource aid for child support caseworkers, will also be posted on the OCSE website at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse.

INQUIRIES:For any questions or concerns regarding how to use DoD data, please contact your State Technical Support Liaison, or Christine Jennings at (703) 345-8099 or cjennings@acf.hhs.gov.

For questions or changes to the Quick Guide to the Military, contact Nancy Benner, Employer Services, at (202) 401-5528 or nbenner@acf.hhs.gov.

Sherri Z. Heller, Ed.D.
Commissioner
Office of Child Support Enforcement

Attachment

A. A Quick Guide to Working with the Military as an Employer (2003)
B. Updated version of the "Quick Guide to Working with the Military as an Employer"