There are more than 560 federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribes in the U.S. According to the 2016 American Community Survey, nearly half (47%) of all Native American children under the age of 18 live with one parent.
Questions commonly arise when employers are working with tribes, such as:
Every child support order must contain a provision for one or both parents to provide medical support for the child(ren). Medical support is health insurance, cash payments, or both.
Employers withhold about 75 percent of all child support collections nationwide and frequently have questions about how to implement income withholding orders (IWOs). The questions and answers offer helpful information to employers about Implementing IWOs.
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, known as welfare reform, requires all employers to report certain information on their newly hired employees to a designated state agency.