Military & Veteran Parents

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We thank veterans for their service, and recognize that military and veteran parents face unique challenges because of deployments or other experiences. Managing child support debt and barriers to payment can weigh heavily on military members. Homeless and at-risk veterans also face similar struggles. Helping parents in uniform get informed is good for everyone — and it advances the child support program’s goal of ensuring America’s children have the support they need.


Top Military & Veterans Resources

Provides information on child support for military families

Focuses on veterans who are noncustodial parents in the child support caseload and how the program can help them

Gives military parents and providers tools to help children understand and adjust to the changes service members and their loved ones face

Resource to help states explain the child support program basics to legal partners and veteran service provider partners

This website contains links to educational resources and videos focusing on PTSD treatment and recovery, and information for certain groups, such as children