    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1996, Book I)]
    [June 18, 1996]
    [Page 928]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

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    Memorandum on the Child Support Initiative
    June 18, 1996

    Memorandum for the Secretary of Labor

    Subject: Child Support Initiative

        I hereby direct you to assist in the implementation of the plan I am
    announcing today to strengthen the child support system and promote
    parental responsibility.
        I direct you to exercise your legal authority in a manner that will
    assist the implementation of the plan by encouraging those State
    employment security agencies that collect new-hire information for use
    in child support enforcement to report such information to the
    Department of Health and Human Service's pilot program for matching new-
    hire data with Federal Parent Locator Service data in order to better
    track parents owing child support who have taken a job in another State.
        The plan I have outlined will help strengthen child support
    operations by toughening the paternity establishment requirements for
    applicants for welfare and by enabling States to locate, and withhold
    wages from, child support obligors who have taken a job in another
    State. Its prompt implementation is integral to achieving our goal of
    promoting the American value of parental responsibility.

                                                          William J. Clinton