You too are subject to the following laws -- if not
directly, then indirectly due to the nature of their enforcement.
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996,
Public Law 104-193, established a locating and tracking database
system which transcends all borders -- even international ones.
Under this system, any parent charged with owing passed-due child
support payments must have their wages garnished, bank accounts
seized, and tax refunds withheld in addition to their driver's
licenses, business licenses, and passports being revoked. Consequently,
every American must be subjected to these same data collection
requirements in order for the system to function as intended.
In addition to the state-run databases, state and federal agencies
now have open access to records held by private entities such
as electric, phone, pager, and cable t.v. companies. All employers
must likewise open their records to enforcement agencies and must
also generate monthly reports on their employees to send to the
state which are in turn reported to a federal database. These
laws even extend to private contracting parties.
Once this system is perfected, other violations of other laws
will be gradually incorporated into the internationally linked
locating and tracking payment-enforcement system.
The best source for verifying the following information is the
Social Security Administration's own web page:
"TITLE IV--GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID AND SERVICES TO NEEDY
FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AND FOR CHILD-WELFARE SERVICES"
http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title04/0400.htm
What you are about to read is a compilation of excerpts from section 666 of the United States Code, which is where the above stated requirements are set out. Codified laws and statutes are difficult to read in their native format. To simplify reading, paragraph and section numbering have been removed and sentences were allowed to flow together where appropriate. The following has not been embellished in any way other than the addition of a very few comments which are so indicated with [square brackets]. [The excerpts from 666 begins here. Remember, if it is not in brackets it is federal law.]
42 USC Sec. 666 CHAPTER 7 - SOCIAL SECURITY Part D -
Child Support and Establishment of Paternity. Sec. 666.
Requirement of statutorily prescribed procedures to improve
effectiveness of child support enforcement.
Each State must enact laws requiring the use of the following
"procedures" to increase the effectiveness of the [child
support] program:
The State shall provide procedures which permit the establishment
of the paternity of a child. In a contested paternity case [the
State shall] require the child and all other parties to submit
to genetic tests upon request supported by a sworn statement by
the party alleging paternity, and setting forth facts establishing
a reasonable possibility of the requisite sexual contact between
the parties; or denying paternity, and setting forth facts establishing
a reasonable possibility of the nonexistence of sexual contact
between the parties. If no objection is made, the test results
are admissible as evidence of paternity without the need for other
proof of authenticity or accuracy. States must give full faith
and credit to a determination of paternity made by any other State.
The State procedures shall provide that the parties to an action
to establish paternity are not entitled to a trial by jury.
The State shall provide procedures for child support withholding
from wages. The wages of an absent parent shall be subject to
withholding, regardless of whether support payments are in arrears.
The employer, upon being given notice, is required to withhold
wages in the amount specified by the notice and pay such amount
to the appropriate agency. The employer must be held liable to
the State for any amount which the employer fails to withhold
from wages due an employee following receipt of the notice. A
fine [shall be] imposed against any employer who discharges from
employment, refuses to employ, or takes disciplinary action against
any absent parent subject to wage withholding because of the existence
of such withholding and the obligations or additional obligations
which it imposes upon the employer. The State may withhold from
forms of income other than wages regardless of the nature of their
income-producing activities. The State must extend its withholding
system [to provide for withholding in] cases where the applicable
support orders were issued in other States. Any refund of State
income tax will be reduced by the amount of any overdue support
owed by an absent parent.
[The procedures must assure that] [t]he State has authority to
withhold or suspend, or to restrict the use of driver's licenses,
professional and occupational licenses, and recreational licenses
of individuals owing overdue support or failing, to comply with
subpoenas or warrants relating to paternity or child support proceedings.
The State shall have procedures to ensure that all Federal and
State agencies conducting activities under this part have access
to any system used by the State to locate an individual for purposes
relating to motor vehicles or law enforcement. The state shall
have procedures requiring that the social security number of:
(A) any applicant for a professional license, driver's license,
occupational license, recreational license, or marriage
license be recorded on the application; (B) any individual who
is subject to a divorce decree, support order, or paternity determination
or acknowledgment be placed in the records relating to the matter;
and (C) any individual who has died be placed in the records relating
to the death and be recorded on the death certificate.
[The State enforcement agency] shall enter into agreements with financial institutions doing business in the State to develop and operate a data match system using automated data exchanges in which each such financial institution is required to provide the name, address, social security number or other identifying information for each noncustodial parent who maintains an account at such institution and who owes past-due support, and will encumber or surrender, as the case may be, assets held by such institution on behalf of the parent. A financial institution shall not be liable under any Federal or State law to any person for any disclosure of information to the State agency; for encumbering or surrendering any assets [under these laws]; or for any other action taken in good faith to comply with the requirements. [This system of automated bank withdrawal or withholding will eventually be used to pay everything the State collects including: fines, taxes and any other fees, without your approval; you'll have no more choice in the matter than the dead beat dads now have.] The State shall periodically report to consumer reporting agencies [credit bureaus] the name [and social security number] of any parent who owes overdue support.
The State shall establish an automated data collection system
(linked database) to include a registry to be known as the 'State
Case Registry' that contains records with respect to each case
in which services are being provided by a State agency. Each [child]
support order established or modified in the State on or after
October 1, 1998, shall be included in the State Case Registry.
[The information in the State Case Registries shall be] furnished
to the Federal Case Registry of Child Support Orders.
The State Case Registry may be established by linking local case
registries of [child] support orders through an automated information
network [no one will hide from this]. Such records shall use standardized
data elements for both parents (such as names, social security
numbers and other uniform identification numbers, dates of birth,
and case identification numbers), and other information as the
Secretary may require. The State agency operating the automated
system shall establish, update, maintain, and regularly monitor,
case records in the State Case Registry. The State shall use the
automated system to extract information (at such times, and in
such standardized format or formats, as may be required by the
Secretary), to share and compare information with, and to receive
information from, other databases and information comparison services,
in order to obtain (or provide) information necessary to enable
the State agency (or the Secretary or other State or Federal agencies)
to carry out this part.
On and after October 1, 1997, each State shall establish an automated
directory (to be known as the 'State Directory of New Hires')
which shall contain information supplied on each newly hired employee
in the State. The State will operate a State Directory of New
Hires in accordance with section 453A. Each employer shall furnish
to the Directory of New Hires of the State in which a newly hired
employee works, a report that contains the name, address, and
social security number of the employee, and the name and address
of the employer [eventually, everyone who has a job will be listed
in this database.
The State shall have procedures which give the State [enforcement
agency] the authority to take the following actions relating to
establishment of paternity or to establishment, modification,
or enforcement of support orders, without the necessity of obtaining
an order from any other judicial or administrative tribunal, to
take the following actions: To subpoena any financial or other
information needed to establish, modify, or enforce a support
order, and to impose penalties for failure to respond to such
a subpoena;
To require all entities in the State (including for-profit, nonprofit,
and governmental employers) to provide promptly, in response to
a request by the State agency of that or any other State administering
a program under this part, information on the employment, compensation,
and benefits of any individual employed by such entity as an employee
or contractor, and to sanction failure to respond to any such
request; To obtain access, subject to safeguards on privacy and
information security, and subject to the nonliability of entities
that afford such access under this subparagraph, to information
contained in the following records (including automated access,
in the case of records maintained in automated data bases): (i)
Records of other State and local government agencies, including
vital statistics (including records of marriage, birth, and divorce);
State and local tax and revenue records (including information
on residence address, employer, income and assets); records concerning
real and titled personal property; records of occupational and
professional licenses, and records concerning the ownership and
control of corporations, partnerships, and other business entities;
employment security records; records of agencies administering
public assistance programs; records of the motor vehicle department;
and corrections records; (ii) Certain records held by private
entities with respect to individuals who owe or are owed support
(or against or with respect to whom a support obligation is sought),
consisting of the names and addresses of such individuals and
the names and addresses of the employers of such individuals,
as appearing in customer records of public utilities and cable
television companies, pursuant to an administrative subpoena;
and. information (including information on assets and liabilities)
on such individuals held by financial institutions.
If the Secretary receives a certification that an individual owes
arrearages of child support in an amount exceeding $5,000, the
Secretary shall transmit such certification to the Secretary of
State for action with respect to denial, revocation, or limitation
of passports, and refuse to issue a passport to such individual,
and may revoke, restrict, or limit a passport issued previously
to such individual.
The Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Secretary
of Health and Human Services, is authorized to declare any foreign
country to be a foreign reciprocating country if the foreign country
has established, or undertakes to establish, procedures for the
establishment and enforcement of duties of [child] support substantially
in conformity with [these laws].
[Here are some additional relevant subsections:]
FEDERAL PARENT LOCATOR SERVICE
http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title04/0453.htm
STATE DIRECTORY OF NEW HIRES
http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title04/0453A.htm
INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT
http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title04/0459A.htm