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1999 Florida Statutes

SECTION 2558
Child support distribution and disbursement.

409.2558  Child support distribution and disbursement.--

(1)  The department shall distribute and disburse child support payments collected in Title IV-D cases in accordance with 42 U.S.C. s. 657 and regulations adopted thereunder by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

(2)  A recipient of collection and distribution services of the department's Child Support Enforcement Program may request a reconsideration by the department concerning the amount collected, the date collected, the amount distributed, the distribution timing, or the calculation of arrears. The department shall establish by rule a reconsideration procedure for informal review of agency action in distributing and disbursing child support payments collected by the department. The procedures must provide the recipients of services with an opportunity to review the department's actions before a hearing is requested under chapter 120.

(3)  If the department's records indicate that a child support obligee has received an overpayment of child support from the department due to either mistake or fraud, the department may take action to recover the overpayment. The department may establish by rule a procedure to recover overpayments.

History.--s. 21, ch. 98-397; s. 10, ch. 99-375.