Custodial parents who are receiving at least $500 a year in child support are going to find a new bill in their mailboxes in October. The state is charging these parents with a $25 annual fee for the government's help in collecting past due child support payments. Roughly 130,000 Virginians will be receiving letters, kindly telling them to fork over the cash for the state's assistance.

Parents who have received any type of public assistance will not be charged the fee, when a custodial parent must take state assistance due to the non-custodial parents failure to support the child, the debt to pay back the state is then moved onto the non-custodial parent’s shoulders.

This program is part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, and the fees applied to custodial parents are estimated to raise two million dollars for the state, however, two thirds of that hefty chunk of change will be snatched right up by the federal government to help reduce the deficit. If Virginia does not send out the fee to the custodial parents, they are going to lose federal funding, so the short of the situations is; custodial parents are going to have to fork over the twenty five bucks to the state, so that the government will continue forking over much larger amounts of money to the state.

I am sure that there are plenty of non-custodial parents out there in Virginia who have a slightly larger smile on their face knowing that the custodial parent too, has to shell out some hard earned clams to the government for child support, it may not be much, but I am sure it’s worth a smile to the non-custodial parents who are fed up with the current child support enforcement system, and feel that at least this time it is the custodial parent’s pocket which is being dug into.

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