[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 192 (Tuesday, October 4, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68421-68422]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-23865]


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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 Order/Notice for Support (IWO).
    OMB No.: 0970-0154.
    Description: The Income Withholding Order/Notice for Support (IWO) 
is the standard form that must be used to order and notify employers 
and income providers to withhold child support payments from an 
obligor's income. It also indicates where employers and other income 
providers must remit the payments and other information needed to 
withhold correctly.
    Child support agencies, courts, private attorneys, custodial 
parties, and others must use the IWO form to initiate an income 
withholding order for support and give notice of income withholding. 
State child support agencies are required to have automated data 
processing systems containing current order and case information. State 
child support agencies providing services to custodial and/or 
noncustodial parties enter the terms of a child support order 
established by a tribunal into the state's automated system, which 
automatically populates the order information into the IWO form.
    Employers and income providers also use the form to respond to the 
order/notice with termination or income status information. Employers 
and other income providers may choose to receive the IWO form from 
child support agencies on paper or electronically, and may respond on 
paper or electronically to notify the sender of termination of 
employment or change in the income status.
    The information collection activities pertaining to the IWO form 
are authorized by 42 U.S.C. 666(a)(1), (a)(8) and 666(b)(6), which 
require the use of the Income Withholding for Support (IWO) form to 
order income withholding for all child support orders.
    Respondents: Courts, private attorneys, custodial parties or their

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representatives, employers, and other parties that provide income to 
noncustodial parents.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                         Number of
             Instrument                  Number of     responses per  Average  burden hours  per   Total burden
                                        respondents     respondent             response                hours
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Income withholding order/notice            3,699,790            1.00  5 minutes.................         308,316
 (Courts, private attorneys,
 custodial parties or their
 representatives).
Income withholding orders/                 1,207,484           9.694  2 minutes.................         390,178
 termination of employment/income
 status (Employers and other income
 providers).
Electronic income withholding orders/          9,596          136.38  3 seconds.................           1,090
 termination of employment/income
 status (Employers and other income
 providers).
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden     ..............  ..............  ..........................         699,585
     Hours.
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    In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chap 35), the Administration for 
Children and Families is soliciting public comment on the specific 
aspects of the information collection described above. Copies of the 
proposed collection of information can be obtained and comments may be 
forwarded by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, 
Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW., 
Washington DC 20201. Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. Email 
address: [email protected]. All requests should be identified 
by the title of the information collection.
    The Department specifically requests comments on: (a) Whether the 
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper 
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the 
information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection 
of information on respondents, including through the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology. 
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted 
within 60 days of this publication.

Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-23865 Filed 10-3-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4184-01-P