Child Support Services obligations in Minnesota
USAspending.gov records $806,977,224.10 in Child Support Services obligations (CFDA 93.563) with place of performance in Minnesota, across 31 awards. Thirty-one instruments against $806.98 million imply about $26.03 million per award. This page joins HHS/ACF catalog 93.563 to the MN geography tag. It is not TANF, not a caseload census, and not cash already paid. Obligations are not outlays.
Key figures
- CFDA 93.563 shows $806,977,224.10 in Minnesota obligations on 31 awards.
- The mean is about $26.03 million per award.
- The catalog is Child Support Services (93.563), not TANF.
- Minnesota is a place-of-performance tag, not a case or county census.
- Figures are obligations, not outlays.
Minnesota joined to CFDA 93.563
CFDA 93.563 is titled CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES. Crossed with Minnesota place of performance, obligations sum to $806,977,224.10 on 31 awards. The national 93.563 hub includes other states. Minnesota’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $806,977,224.10 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of IV-D cases in Hennepin County.
Thirty-one awards is a state IV-D pass-through pattern: child-support administration often posts as a modest number of large assistance instruments. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $806,977,224.10, 31 awards, MN, and 93.563. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Child Support Services and Minnesota together when reading $806,977,224.10.
93.563 is not TANF in Minnesota
TANF and foster-care Title IV-E use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those series into $806,977,224.10 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Minnesota, CFDA 93.563, $806,977,224.10, 31 awards. Caseload counts, collection totals, and county names are unpublished.
The catalog title names child support services, not a ranking of county attorneys. Dividing $806,977,224.10 by 31 yields about $26.03 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 31 is not a case or county census.
Minnesota geography on the IV-D tag
MN is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, or South Dakota stay outside $806,977,224.10 even when activity later crosses those lines. The code does not convert $806.98 million into a courthouse map.
Minnesota federal spending is the all-program parent. 93.563 is one row on Minnesota programs. $806.98 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Child Support Services in Minnesota for the filtered table, CFDA 93.563 for the catalog without a Minnesota filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $806,977,224.10.
Reading 31 awards under $806.98 million
$806,977,224.10 ÷ 31 is about $26.03 million per award. That average is a state-admin pass-through scale, not a per-case collection, not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 31 as a record count, not as 31 counties.
Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 31 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $806,977,224.10 without changing the join key of 93.563 and MN. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $806,977,224.10 is the net total supplied in the facts. The pair remains Child Support Services plus Minnesota. Do not treat $806,977,224.10 as an outlay series.
What the 93.563–Minnesota pair does not prove
A large 93.563 total tagged to Minnesota does not measure whether collections rose, and it does not equal support paid to custodial parents. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $806,977,224.10 on 31 awards for Child Support Services in Minnesota.
Keep both sides of the join: Child Support Services and Minnesota, obligations only. Do not annualize $806,977,224.10 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 31 as a case or county census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a family-court story. Cite Child Support Services together with Minnesota whenever you reuse $806,977,224.10.
Using the Child Support–Minnesota overlay
The overlay target is the Minnesota × CFDA 93.563 table. Open Child Support Services in Minnesota when you want the same $806,977,224.10 / 31-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 93.563 drops the Minnesota filter. Minnesota federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Minnesota programs lists other catalogs beside 93.563. All spending ties indexes other pairs.
This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Minnesota won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 93.563 plus MN. Obligations of $806,977,224.10 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.563 × MN pair. 31 remains an award-record count, not a person, facility, or project census.
Questions
- How much child support services funding is obligated in Minnesota?
- USAspending records $806,977,224.10 in CFDA 93.563 obligations with Minnesota place of performance on 31 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Child Support Services and Minnesota together when citing $806,977,224.10.
- Does 31 awards mean 31 Minnesota counties?
- 31 is a USAspending award-record count, not a case or county census. The implied mean is about $26.03 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 31 is a record count, not a person or facility census.
- Is this Minnesota’s total federal family-services spending?
- No. This join is CFDA 93.563 only. TANF, foster care, and other ACF catalogs appear on separate Minnesota program pages. Nationwide 93.563 is not limited to Minnesota. Obligations of $806,977,224.10 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Child Support Services–Minnesota table.
- Do these obligations equal child support collected?
- No. $806,977,224.10 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.563 × MN pair.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.