Child Support Services in Alabama

Alabama x 93.563 is a IV-D join, not a case census

This page pairs CFDA 93.563, CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES, with Alabama place of performance. Child Support Services, in program language, helps states locate parents, establish orders, and collect support under Title IV-D. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $375,498,575 on 9 awards. The extract does not list cases, collections, or county offices. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state collects more support, and not a claim that 9 awards equal 9 offices.

Other HHS listings — TANF, Medicaid, or different family programs — sit outside $375,498,575 unless they also carry 93.563. Alabama’s WIC and institutional-aid joins on this slice are USDA and Education overlays, not IV-D subsets. Mixing child support with TANF would invent a combined family-services figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and poverty rates is not causation. Poverty figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Alabama locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $375,498,575 in the state treasury.

9 awards behind $375.5 million

Mean obligation is about $41,722,063.89 if $375,498,575 were divided evenly across 9 lines. That ratio is not a published administrative grant and not a cost per case. Formula-style IV-D awards often post as a handful of rows to a state child-support agency. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations. It is not a count of cases, counties, or collections.

Nine lines are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent the lead agency name. Open Child Support Services in Alabama for the stored table. Do not convert 9 into a map of Alabama child-support offices. The $375,498,575 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards, not collections already received from parents. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a caseload.

Questions

How much Child Support Services funding is obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov shows $375,498,575 in obligations for CFDA 93.563 with Alabama as place of performance, across 9 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Alabama’s full human-services budget. Other HHS listings are outside this join unless they also carry 93.563.

Do 9 awards mean 9 Alabama counties received grants?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not a county or case census. The packet does not name recipients. See the Alabama 93.563 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Is this the amount of child support collected in Alabama?

No. This page is federal obligations for CFDA 93.563, Child Support Services — typically administrative FFP, not parent collections. Collections from noncustodial parents are a different metric and are not in this packet. The $375,498,575 figure is the tagged obligation pair only.

Is $375 million already spent on Alabama child-support offices?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $375,498,575 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Claim draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet.