Child Support Services

Statistics Report

Child Support Services currently has 36 offices, comprised of 27 DHS offices, 8 District Attorney contract offices, and 1 Community Action Program office. Tribal Child Support Program statistics are excluded from the figures in the table below (some tribes use the state's computer system for some of their cases, and these total 2,100 cases and collections of $4,485,181 for SFY 2023).

Collections	SFY 2021	SFY 2022	SFY 2023
Fiscal Year IV-D Collections ¹	$358,179,583	$328,079,943	$312,853,080
Fiscal Year Non IV-D Collections ²	$7,956,802	$7,049,096	$6,392,147
Total Collections (IV-D and Non IV-D)	$366,136,384	$335,129,039	$319,245,227
Total Fiscal Year Change	-7.85%	-8.47%	-4.74%
IV-D Collections Breakdown:
State Tax Offset	$2,803,065	$3,572,271	$3,238,307
Federal Tax Offset	$51,421,499	$51,461,313	$30,939,121
Unemployment Compensation	$31,014,797	$4,070,953	$2,306,037
Income Assignment	$202,376,999	$200,509,483	$205,775,861
FIDM (Bank Levy)	$92,462	$1,362,857	$5,357,178
Voluntary Payments	$34,162,263	$34,615,081	$33,689,265
Worker's Compensation	$2,139,038	$1,804,695	$1,998,902
Other	$34,169,460	$30,683,290	$29,548,408

'1 IV-D Collections are those collections received and issued on cases where the state provides child support services as authorized by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act.

'2 Non IV-D Collections are those collections received and issued on cases where the state does NOT provide IV-D services but does process the payments as authorized by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act.

Caseload	SFY 2021	SFY 2022	SFY 2023
Total IV-D Caseload	174,092	163,809	158,147
Current Assistance (TANF & Foster Care)	12,727	11,086	10,276
Former Assistance	45,470	41,794	38,938
Never Assistance	115,895	110,929	108,933
Support Ordered	142,146	134,820	130,131
Receiving Payments	110,508	100,783	95,602
Average Caseload Per Budgeted FTE ³	401	382	352

3 FTE is Full Time Equivalent staff. Average Caseload per Budgeted FTE is displayed here and based on the number of FTE in the budget. Average Caseload per Filled FTE (based on staff actually employed) is not displayed here but is also useful. The more vacancies, the greater the difference between the two averages. In SFY 2023, Average Caseload per Budgeted FTE was 352, while Average Caseload per Filled FTE was 385 or 9% greater.

Paternity Establishment	SFY 2021	SFY 2022	SFY 2023
Voluntary Paternities	12,425	12,502	12,330
Court Ordered Paternities	1,914	1,773	3,495
Total Paternities	14,339	14,275	15,825
Out of Wedlock Births	16,072	16,394	16,252
Paternity Establishment Percentage	89.22%	87.07%	97.37%

Miscellaneous Information

SFY represents the State Fiscal Year, which begins July 1 and runs through June 30 of the following year. For example, SFY 2023 runs from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.

The Covid-19 pandemic which began March 2020 and other external factors have affected most of these statistics for this entire 3-year period. However, paternities are not afffected by the pandemic for the entire period as they are counted 9 months AFTER they were established or acknowledged. So SFY 2021 paternities include 6 months pre-pandemic (before April 2020), and 6 months after the pandemic began. All SFY 22 and SFY 23 paternities were established or acknowledged after the pandemic began.

Funding Information

CSS funding structure is made up of two parts: CSS receives 66 percent of its funding from the federal government for reimbursement of most expenses. The remaining 34 percent is a combination of enhanced federal funding for some expenses, federal incentive payments for performance, collections retained for public assistance reimbursement, and state legislative appropriations.

Phone Numbers

CARE Call Center toll free                             1-800-522-2922
CARE Oklahoma City Metro                         (405) 522-2273
CARE Tulsa Metro                                        (918) 295-3500