FY 2016 Annual Report to Congress

Office of Child Support Enforcement

Publication Date: March 7, 2018
Current as of:

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The 2016 Annual Report to Congress includes individual state and tribal pages. The report also includes information on collections, expenditures, paternities and orders established, and other program statistics.

A few highlights from the FY 2016 preliminary report:

Highlights:

  • Total distributed IV-D child support collections were $28.8 billion, an increase of 1% over FY 2015 collections.
  • $27.5 billion, or 95% of the distributed collections, were sent directly to families.
  • Total child support collections, which include both IV-D and non-IV-D collections, were $32.7 billion.
  • The child support caseload declined by 1.5% to 14.5 million cases. In particular, current assistance cases (TANF) declined 9%. The former assistance caseload declined by about 2%, while the never assistance caseload increased by about 0.5%.
  • Total administrative expenditures remained at $5.7 billion. Full-time equivalent staffing numbers have decreased every year since 2006, and this trend continued into 2016 with an additional 2% decrease.
  • The program served 15.6 million children.
  • 86% of cases in the caseload had orders established.
  • 65% of current support due was collected. 64 percent of cases with arrears had collections.
  • IV-D Paternity Establishment Percentage (PEP) is 102%.
  • Statewide PEP is 94%.
  • The cost-effectiveness rate is $5.33 for FY 2016.

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