Politics | April 22, 2009 | 3 comments

State of Florida Failing to Distribute Child Support Payments: Holding 28 Million.

source: http://www.laryholland.com/serendipity/archives/594-State-of-Florida-Failing-to-Distribute-C...

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A recent newspaper article caught my attention coming out of Florida. $28M in Child Support Payments Go Untouched in Florida (AVVO.COM April 20, 2009) claimed that "According to a report from the Orlando Sentinel, the state of Florida is holding onto $28 million in child support payments because it can't figure out which parents should receive the money."



The part that gets interesting is that more than $5 million of the money has been sitting there for five years or more. When I read that, I decided to look further into the State's laws pertaining to "unclaimed funds" and what the state does to regarding "proceedings to recover escheated property." The laws in Florida are stated under Chapter 716 of the Florida Code, entitled "Escheats."



Basically the State of Florida is going to be able to make at least $5,000,000.00 for being inept at distributing child support. The appropriate law dealing with Escheat (transfer to the state budget) is 716.02 and states:




716.02 Escheat of funds in the possession of federal agencies.--All property within the provisions of subsections (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5), are declared to have escheated, or to escheat, including all principal and interest accruing thereon, and to have become the property of the state.
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3 comments // State of Florida Failing to Distribute Child Support Payments: Holding 28 Million.

  • justadad
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      justadad  

    • Finally, where are the US attorney's?

      Oh, we can hear this as well, irrational rationalizations that "the US attorneys can only pursue what the FBI lends us."

      Yet, we already know that the FBI is in contract with the Modern Alienating Fematicals/Fascists In America (MAFIA) for aiding and abating the acts of extortion, racketeering and embezzlement.

      Go figure!

    • 3 years ago
  • justadad
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      justadad  

    • I can hear the response already,

      "staff are over worked,
      under-funded,
      and already too busy,
      addressing our other more important matters."

      "We need MORE!"

      After all, wasn't this the type of apology we heard from the soooo overly caring compassionate of the State of Missouri following their embarrassing "plunder" of a once cherished family catering business in St. Louis MO?

      It seems to always be of the same chorus - WE NEED MORE!

      Dare (them) to just say NO, to the Dough!

      Through such,
      The use and misuse,
      To the abuse of children,
      May be abated.

    • 3 years ago
  • regjoeschmo
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      regjoeschmo  

    • Double whammy!! They get the SS Title IV-D incentive funds for collecting it, then withhold it from the children who need it so they can get more money!!!

      Best interests of the children is their primary concern??

    • 3 years ago
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