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Child Support Review Process(CSRP)

17th National Child Support Training Conference
September 2007

CSRP Key Elements

  • Automated case assessment for Establishment and Enforcement cases
    • Criterion reviewed and met to move to next step
  • Automated scheduling for eligible Establishment and Enforcement cases
    • Manager creates conference locations, dates and times
  • Automated mailing of notices to all parties
    • One notice to CP
    • One notice for each active NCP address
Worker notified when conference is scheduled

Incorporating the Automated Process

Flow Chart of the Automated Process

Statistics Since Implementation

  • Migrated to production on December 22, 2004
  • Paternity results through April 30, 2007
    • 24,492 Paternity actions resulted in agreed orders
    • 11,256 Paternity actions resulted in non-agreed orders
    • 6,629 Judicial orders were obtained on paternity actions originally scheduled through the automated CSRP process
  • Establishment/Non-Paternity results through April 30, 2007
    • 25,566 Establishment/Non-Paternity actions resulted in agreed orders
    • 6,882 Establishment/Non-Paternity actions resulted in non-agreed orders
    • 6,672 Judicial orders were obtained on establishment/non-paternity actions originally scheduled through the automated CSRP process

CSRP Benefits

Benefits as a direct result of automated improvement include:

  • Faster next action processing
    • streamlined assessment timeframes
    • staff time previously spent scheduling conferences, printing documents, and mailing Notices can be allocated to other tasks
  • Increased flexibility to allow additional CSROs to conduct conferences
Benefits of CSRP in general include:
  • Improved customer service
  • Better utilization of judicial dockets
  • Involvement of parties leads to paying cases which results in less arrears