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V. PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY Alaska’s ATAP programs promote parental responsibility. ATAP incorporates child support, minor parent program requirements, and program non-compliance penalties as previously described. Other efforts to promote parental responsibility are described under Other TANF Funded Services. In addition, as a companion to ATAP, Alaska enacted in 1996 and reauthorized in 2001 child support provisions intended to strengthen families and promote parental responsibilities. These provisions include: • Parents of unmarried minor parents may be ordered by a court to pay child support for their grandchild until the minor parent becomes an adult. • The interest rate on child support arrearages is reduced from 12% to 6% to encourage delinquent obligors to comply. • Occupational and driver’s licenses of obligors who are three or more months in arrears on their child support payments are withheld unless the obligors make arrangements with the CSSD. • Alaska’s participation in the National Registry of Child Support Cases and a National Directory of new hires to support the interstate enforcement of child support. Alaska TANF State Plan P lan Effective December 31, 2025 22 | P a g e