Notice2025-01245
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Child Support Annual Data Report and Instructions (OCSS-157) (Office of Management and Budget #: 0970-0177)
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Published
January 21, 2025
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Support Services (OCSS), is requesting the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the Child Support Annual Data Report and Instructions (OCSS-157), with minor revisions, for an additional three years. The current OMB approval expires on March 31, 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 21, 2025)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01245]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Child
Support Annual Data Report and Instructions (OCSS-157) (Office of
Management and Budget #: 0970-0177)
AGENCY: Office of Child Support Services; Administration for Children
and Families; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of
Child Support Services (OCSS), is requesting the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) to approve the Child Support Annual Data Report and
Instructions (OCSS-157), with minor revisions, for an additional three
years. The current OMB approval expires on March 31, 2025.
DATES: Comments due February 20, 2025. OMB must make a decision about
the collection of information between 30 and 60 days after publication
of this document in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best
assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. You can
also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by
emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0861666e676b6764646d6b7c61676648696b6e2660607b266f677e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="076e69616864686b6b6264736e686947666461296f6f7429606871">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all emailed requests by
the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Description: States must annually provide
OCSS with their child support information pertaining to case inventory,
performance status, and accomplishments in the following areas:
paternity establishment; services requested and provided; medical
support; collections due and distributed; staff; program expenditures;
non-cooperation and good cause; and administrative enforcement. The
information collected from the OCSS-157 allows OCSS to (1) report child
support activities to Congress as required by law; (2) calculate
States' incentive measures for performance and assess performance
indicators used in the program; and (3) help OCSS monitor and evaluate
State child support programs.
OCSS made minor revisions to the instructions and report to make
them easier for the respondents to understand and complete.
Additionally, OCSS updated the name of the federal child support office
from the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) to the Office of
Child Support Services (OCSS).
Respondents: State Child Support Agencies.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Total number of annual Average annual Annual burden
Information collection instrument annual responses per burden hour per hours
respondents respondent response
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OCSS Annual Report and Instructions (OCSS- 54 1 7 378
157).......................................
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Authority: 42 U.S.C. 652(a) and (g) and 669.
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-01245 Filed 1-17-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4184-41-P
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