The Virginia Department of Child Support Enforcement is in the same group as the RIAA, MPAA, the ACLU and PETA. They were started with good intentions but grown into hippocritical agencies. Yes I do agree that there are alot of deadbeat das who refuse to pay child support, but then there are those that cannot pay now do to the failing economy that have been faithful in the payments until the hardships and these people are being treated the same as those who just plain refuse to pay. Also, DCSE fails to hunt down women as much as they hunt down the men. Here is another thing. If the woman, have children in their care, DCSE will not hesitate and give that woman TANIF.

 If a man was paying child support faithfully, not falling behind, they will not hesitate to have you incarcerated. And did you know that the DCSE also charges interest, even if you overpaid? For example, say June 26, you balance is -$150. They will charge you interest of atleaast $1. The Court system may also order you to pay weekly and you do, but if you look at your account, there are sporadic postings. DCSE will “order” a monthly balance a month ahead of time. For instance. The June 26th balance say was -$150. DCSE ordered on the same day $500 (just an amount). So now, until the month is up, you would owe $350. But, since it was ordered a month ahead, and now you “owe” that, DCSE will charge the monthly interest on the amount owed.

 Since DCSE keeps what I call a sporadic ledger, if you happen to go to court of missed amounts, DCSE will present this to the judge to make it look like you were not keeping up with support as ordered.

I am not against the Virginia DCSE, I am however upset with their practices. If you owe them money, the case worker is very easy to get a hold of, if you do not owe them money, or if they take more money from your paycheck than allowed, the case worker then is very difficult to get a hold of and to work with.

In all fairness, the Social Services Departments are geared more to helping women with children that helping men with children and the women knows this and that gets exploited. A man and a woman can do to the Dept. of Social Services with the exact same problem. The woman will come out of the office with help and brochures and names and numbers of other agencies that will help. The man will come out after being told that there is nothing that can be done.