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  • Why There Is a Need for Tribal Child Support Programs

    Jerry Sweet, NCSEA|Jan 19, 2012

    Why do Native American tribes need their own child support programs? Why shouldn’t tribes continue to utilize state child support programs? These are two very complex and important questions, which I hope to answer in this brief piece. Since 1974, states have operated child support programs to provide services to all eligible children. Tribal children, however, through no fault of state programs, often could not receive the benefits of state child support programs because of where they lived. State IV-D agencies do not have jurisdiction over t...