[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 18, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69382-69383]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-27171]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Income Withholding 
Order/Notice for Support (IWO)

AGENCY: Office of Child Support Enforcement, Administration for 
Children and Families, HHS.

ACTION: Request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is 
requesting a three-year extension of the form Income Withholding Order/
Notice for Support (IWO) (OMB #0970-0154, expiration 8/31/2020). This 
request includes minor revisions to the approved forms.

DATES: Comments due within 60 days of publication. In compliance with 
the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and Families is soliciting 
public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection 
described above.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the proposed collection of information can be 
obtained and comments may be forwarded by emailing 
[email protected]. Alternatively, copies can also be obtained 
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. All requests, emailed or 
written, should be identified by the title of the information 
collection.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Description: The 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 IWO form to order income withholding for all 
child support orders.
    The IWO form and instructions include these proposed changes:
    1. Changed effective date from a calendar date to a text entry. 
This clarifies that IWOs are effective on either the date of mailing, 
receipt, or service to the employer.
    2. Added a textbox in Remittance Information regarding payments in 
interstate cases.
    3. Simplified and consolidated wording of required advices to 
employers and moved some of them from Additional Information into 
Remittance Information.
    4. Moved a link to the Child Support Portal within Additional 
Information to

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Lump Sum Payments and added one to Notice of Employment Termination or 
Income Status.
    Respondents: Courts, private attorneys, custodial parties or their 
representatives, employers, and other parties that provide income to 
noncustodial parents.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                          Number of
              Instrument                Total number    responses per   Average burden hours per   Annual burden
                                       of respondents    respondent             response               hours
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Income withholding order/notice             4,091,591            1.00  5 minutes................         340,966
 (courts, private attorneys,
 custodial parties or their
 representatives).
Income withholding orders/termination       1,257,639            9.07  2 minutes................         380,226
 of employment/income status
 (employers and other income
 providers).
Electronic income withholding orders/          17,985          101.73  30 seconds...............          15,247
 termination of employment/income
 status (employers and other income
 providers).
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 736,439.
    Comments: 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.

    Authority:  42 U.S.C. 666(a)(1),(a)(8), and 666(b)(6).

Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-27171 Filed 12-17-19; 8:45 am]
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