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Communications MAVERICS will automatically refer reportable absent parents to METSS. After absent parent information is referred to METSS any changes made to the TANF case in MAVERICS will be passed to METSS. When adding a new AP to the case it must be referred to METSS. When IV-D staff wishes to report a change in IV-A owned data, an alert will be generated and the IV-A worker must accept or reject the change in MAVS. This is handled on the REPC screen in MAVERICS. When the IV-A worker reports a change in IV-D data, the child support worker will receive an alert and will either accept or reject the change. All collections paid by absent parents will be entered in METSS by child support staff. The IV-D collections will appear on the CSCH screen in MAVS.

The METSS system also provides information about child support payments made to IV-A and food stamp clients. Child Support Recovery of IV-A Payments The Division of Child Support Enforcement was required by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to apply the support collection to the recovery of any TANF payments made to the family, including the TANF money payment, TWP transportation allowances and TWP participation stipends. Any support money remaining after the TANF benefit amount has been recovered will be paid directly to the family by the Division of Child Support Enforcement.

Families that receive or have received TANF assistance and the custodial parent has an established child support order are eligible for the pass-through and disregard incentive program. The portion of child support collected in any given month on behalf of the TANF AU shall be disbursed to the custodial parent and shall be disregarded in determining the amount of the TANF benefits provided to the AU.

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