[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 115 (Monday, June 15, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36215-36216]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-12795]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; 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 30 days of publication. 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.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

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.
    Respondents: Courts, private attorneys, custodial parties or their 
representatives, employers, and other parties that provide income to 
noncustodial parents.

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                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                     Number of        Average
                   Instrument                      Total number    responses per   burden hours    Annual burden
                                                  of respondents    respondent     per response        hours
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Income withholding order/notice (courts, private       4,091,591            1.00       5 minutes         340,966
 attorneys, custodial parties or their
 representatives)...............................
Income withholding orders/termination of               1,256,624            9.07       2 minutes         379,919
 employment/income status (employers and other
 income providers)..............................
Electronic income withholding orders/termination          19,000           96.30      30 seconds           1,525
 of employment/income status (employers and
 other income providers)........................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 722,410.

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

Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-12795 Filed 6-12-20; 8:45 am]
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