Collections of child support in Logan County is better than the state’s average and efforts to collect delinquent and unpaid support continue.
Still, there remains more than $20 million in delinquent payments that have built up over the years, even though just 30 percent of the people with court orders to pay fail to do so.
“They want to put their heads in the sand,” said Bridget Hawkins, the attorney who heads up the Logan County Child Support Enforcement Agency. “They think it’s going to go away after awhile, but it’s not.”
Of the delinquent accounts, she and her staff of five have 4,478 — 3,998 of which are actively managed.
The reasons for not paying vary.
It can be issues of unemployment; mental health; not understanding how to correctly file for Social Security or welfare benefits; or simply obligors who disappear.
Hawkins said she and her staff try to work with the people in the delinquent cases to help them comply.
It’s best for them and their dependent children, she said.
Read complete story in Wednesday’s Examiner.
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