State Demographic, Economic, and Programmatic Variables and Their Impact on the Performance-Based Child Support Incentive System
August 2003
DHHS, Administration for Children and Families
In 1998, Congress enacted the Child Support Performance and Incentive Act (CSPIA), to revise the incentive structure to reward states for performance on a larger number of their establishment and enforcement practices. In addition to other studies of the new incentive system, CSPIA required a report on how various demographic and economic variables affect state performance.