Child Support Services at the Department of Health and Welfare will soon implement stronger policies to help ensure more timely and complete child support payments from non-custodial parents.
DHW says they will accomplish this by raising minimum child support payments required to maintain hunting and fishing privileges when a parent owes past due child support.
Since 1996, Idaho law has allowed Child Support Services to suspend non-custodial parents’ driver’s, recreational, and occupational licenses when they owe a qualifying balance of past due child support.
A release from DHW says unfortunately, $130 million of past due child support is currently owed for Idaho children on 24,251 child support cases.
The new policy will go into effect Sept. 1, and impacts hunting and fishing licenses for those who have fallen behind on child support payments.
