Insurance Match for Self-Insured Employers

Publication Date: June 2, 2023
Current as of:

Partnership with Employer Community Results in Child Support Program Success

Our partnership with employers is essential to the success of the child support program because you withhold 75% of child support collections through payroll deductions. We appreciate your contributions to the child support program to ensure financial stability for children and families.

Insurance Match Program - Another Opportunity to Help Families Receive Support

We encourage employers that self-fund or self-insure for workers’ compensation to participate in our Insurance Match (IM) program. In 2006, Congress passed legislation that authorizes us to compare information about parents who owe past-due support with information insurers (or their agents) maintain about insurance claims, settlements, awards, and payments. We send information resulting from the data matches to the state child support agencies responsible for collecting support. As of January 2022, states and territories participating in the program voluntarily reported over $1.3 million in collections.

This legislation also includes a non-liability provision for insurers, including those self-insured for workers’ compensation, participating in the data match.

How Can Self-Insured Employers Participate?

Employers can participate in the IM program using one of these four options:

  1. Insurance Services Office (ISO)

    • ClaimSearch® participants contact ISO to authorize them to match your company’s claims to the information provided by OCSS.
    • ISO returns the matches to OCSS to send to the state child support agencies responsible for collecting past-due support.

  2. Receive a file from OCSS

    • OCSS sends your company a file containing parents who owe past-due support.
    • Compare individuals on the file to your claims, settlements, awards, and payments and return matches to OCSS.

  3. Send a file to OCSS

    • Send a file to OCSS containing pending claims, settlements, awards, and payments.
    • OCSS compares the information on your file to parents who owe past-due support.

  4. Insurance Match Debt Inquiry

    • Insurance Match Debt Inquiry is an application on the OCSS Child Support Portal. Prior to paying a claim, settlement, award, or payment to an individual, you can use the Insurance Match Debt Inquiry to determine if there is a child support debt.
    • OCSS compares the information you provide with parents who owe past-due support and returns matches to you on the Portal.

For more information about the OCSS Insurance Match program, contact the Insurance Match team.