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names and addresses of relatives or associates; date and place of any arrest; make, model, or license plate number of car; driver's license number; bank account or credit card information; or any additional information necessary to establish paternity for the child or to establish, modify, or enforce a child support order; appearing at interviews, hearings, and legal and administrative proceedings regarding the support of the child with respect to whom assistance is sought; submitting to genetic testing as required by a judicial or administrative order; and submitting the child for whom assistance is sought to genetic testing as required by a judicial or administrative order. paying to the District any support payments received directly from the non-custodial parent that are subject to assignment attesting to lack of information under penalty of perjury if the applicant/recipient is, in good faith, unable to identify or assist in locating the non-custodial parent (see Section 2.6: Good Cause For Non-Cooperation in this Chapter)

GOOD CAUSE FOR NON-COOPERATION 2.6

ALL CSED determines non-cooperation for all situations of non-cooperation with child and medical support requirements and informs IMA which then applies the appropriate sanction, if the recipient is determined to have failed to cooperate without good cause. An applicant/recipient may, at any time, claim good cause for non-cooperation with CSED with respect to determining paternity and obtaining medical/child support from the absent parent of a dependent child. CSED will determine good cause for non-cooperation, bearing in mind the best interests of the child, which include minimizing the child's exposure to family violence. The custodial parent is considered to have good cause for not cooperating with child and medical support requirements when: • efforts to cooperate are reasonably anticipated to result in physical, sexual, or emotional harm to: o The child for whom assistance is sought; o The applicant/recipient; o A household member of the applicant/recipient; or o An immediate family member of the applicant/recipient (i.e., spouse, parent, sibling, child); • circumstances are identified that would make cooperation or actions resulting from cooperation detrimental to the child for whom assistance is claimed including one or more of the following: o the child was conceived as a result of rape or incest, o legal proceedings for the adoption of the child are pending before a court, or o the applicant/recipient is receiving counseling from a public or licensed private social agency to decide if the child should be released for adoption.