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“Your task is, quite simply, to keep the kids in mind and to think broadly
beyond the scope of the work you all individually do to what's a good and
workable solution to the issues that face you.... It's not just about the
coverage; it's about better health outcomes for the people — for these
kids.”
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Recommendation 1 (Federal Regulation)
The HHS should require each State to maximize the enrollment of children in appropriate health care coverage; the first recourse should be appropriate private coverage of either parent. ("Appropriate coverage" is defined in Recommendation 8.)
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History of Federal Funding of the IV-D Program
In 1950, without providing funding, Congress required welfare agencies to inform appropriate law enforcement officials when AFDC was furnished to a child who had been abandoned by a parent. The rationale was to encourage law enforcement officials to take action, including the filing of non-support proceedings against those who had abandoned their children.
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"Child Support-Eligible Children" As used in this report, child support-eligible children are children under the age of 19 whose parents are divorced, separated, or never-married (and not living together). Not all child support-eligible children live in single parent households, about 17 percent live in married step-parent families. In this report, 21 million children living in single or stepparent households are considered to be eligible for child support. Additional child support-eligible children live with a related adult, a guardian or foster parent. Our data is not able to count these children. (See APPENDIX D: Health Care Coverage for Child Support-Eligible Children, page A-32). |
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