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03E CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT ORANGE COUNTY 103 EAST KING STREET-ROOM 201 HILLSBOROUGH. NORTH CAROLINA 27278 CHAPEL HILL 867.94$1 (919) 732.8181. EXT. 485 9694901 • (919) 732-9351. EXT. 485 BURLINGTON/MEBANE 227.2091 227.2092 DURHAM 1199.7331 999.7393 The Orange County Child Support Enforcement Office attempts to establish paternity and support payments for any Orange County child whose parent requests our services. Our office operates with one Secretary, a Child Support Officer who conducts the initial interviews to establish paternity and support, and the Director who initiates contempt of court proceedings for enforce- ment of support payments. The caseload has grown from 500 to 1000 since 1980 due in part to the increased numbers of illegitimate births and divorces; recent national publicity and enabling Federal legislation concerning child support. We have met this irareased workload without staff increases due to professional case management and computerization of our accounting. We are well on our way to meeting our 1984-85 objective of col- lecting $220.000.00 in child support. Through December, 1984, - we had collected over $150.000.00. We also are rapidly closing in on computerization through the Clerk of Court. We rank 4th in the State when comparing total cost to total collections with a 5.97 return ratio. We rank 8th in the percentage of AFDC payments recovered with a 25% return and we rank 10th in the default rate with 32% default compared to the State average of 45%. Since 1980 the Child Support Office has operated without cost to the County because our incentive on collections has off-set the county's. cost. We anticipate further reduction of Federal Finan- cial Participation and continuing growth of non-welfare cases. However, we will continue to maintain a cost-effective program in 1985-86.