Child Support improves in key performance areas

Nov. 6, 2008 -- Hamilton County Child Support, a division of the county's Department of Job and Family Services, showed improvement in all four major performance categories in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, including:

• Establishment of Paternity -- *80.82 percent (first time achieving the federal benchmark, up from 76.69 percent previous year)
• Establishment of Support -- 69.67 percent (68.51 percent, previous year)
• Collection of Current Support -- 65.66 percent (65.58 percent, previous year)

• Collection of Past Due Support -- 66.16 percent (64.29 percent, previous year)
                                                                                                                                  * Preliminary numbers

Due to the progress, Hamilton County Child Support no longer operates under a Work Improvement Program. Agency leaders thanked Child Support staff for their hard work in improving performance in these key areas.