[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 67 (Tuesday, April 8, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19344-19345]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-07830]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Income Withholding for Support Order (IWO).
    OMB No.: 0970-0154.
    Description: All individuals and entities must use a standard form 
the Secretary of HHS developed to notify employers to withhold child 
support for all IV-D and non-IV-D orders. This clearance is for one-
time changes to the IWO form by state child support agencies and 
entities that do not have child support automated systems.
    The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) requires child 
support automated systems to be able to automatically generate and 
download data to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved IWO 
form. The collection of information required by state child support 
agencies and courts to populate IWOs in automated systems is contained 
in OMB 0970-0417 and is not addressed in this clearance. If 
the state child support agency established the child support orders, 
necessary information is already contained in the automated system for 
populating income withholding orders. If a court or other tribunal 
issued a child support order, then IV-D agency staff enter the terms of 
the order into the automated system to issue IWOs. Copies of the IWO 
are made for all necessary parties and state child support agencies 
transmit IWOs to the employer/income withholder by mail or through the 
OCSE electronic income withholding order (e-IWO) portal. Employers are 
required to inform state child support agencies when employees with 
child support IWOs terminate their employment; notification occurs by 
sending the IWO form or by the e-IWO process. Employer responses to 
IWOs are covered by this clearance.
    Custodial parties (CPs) may send the IWO form to an employer 
directly or may engage an attorney or private collection agency to do 
so on their behalf. This clearance addresses custodial parties as they 
do not have access to automated systems for non-IV-D orders.
    The IWO form and instructions were updated for consistency and 
clarity in light of numerous comments suggesting changes received 
during the 60-day comment period of the 1st Federal Register Notice 
publication.
    The information collection is authorized by 42 U.S.C. 
666(a)(8)(B)(iii) and (b)(6)(A)(ii) which requires the use of a 
standard format for income withholding.
    Respondents: Employers, non-IV-D custodial parties, and e-IWO 
employers.

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                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                  Number of                      Average burden
     Type of respondents          Number of     responses per   Annual number      hours per       Total burden
                                 respondents     respondent     of responses        response           hours
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Non-IV-D CPs.................       2,436,312            1          2,436,312  5 minutes........         203,026
Employers....................       1,283,228            7.38       9,470,223  2 minutes........         315,674
e-IWO Employers..............           5,500          131            720,500  3 seconds........             600
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 519,300.
    Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be 
obtained by writing to The Administration for Children and Families, 
Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, 
DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer.
    OMB Comment: OMB is required to make a decision concerning 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. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent directly to the following: Office 
of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, 725 17th Street 
NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attn: Desk Officer for ACF.

Bob Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-07830 Filed 4-7-14; 8:45 am]
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