Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 98 Part 2.djvu/148

 98 STAT. 1308

42 USC 503.

42 USC 601.

PUBLIC LAW 98-378—AUG. 16, 1984 subsection, as is necessary to comply with the order and provide for the payment of any fee to the employer which may be required under paragraph (6)(A), up to the maximum amount permitted under section 303(b) of the Consumer Credit Protection Act (15 U.S.C. 1673(b)). If there are arrearages to be collected, amounts withheld to satisfy such arrearages, when added to the amounts withheld to pay current support and provide for the fee, may not exceed the limit permitted under such section 303(b), but the State need not withhold up to the maximum amount permitted under such section in order to satisfy arrearages. "(2) Such withholding must be provided without the necessity of any application therefor in the case of a child (whether or not eligible for aid under part A) with respect to whom services are already being provided under the State plan under this part, and must be provided in accordance with this subsection on the basis of an application for services under the State plan in the case of any other child in whose behalf a support order has been issued or modified in the State. In either case such withholding must occur without the need for any amendment to the support order involved or for any further action (other than those actions required under this part) by the court or other entity which issued such order. "(3) An absent parent shall become subject to such withholding, and the advance notice required under paragraph (4) shall be given, on the earliest of— "(A) the date on which the payments which the absent parent has failed to make under such order are at least equal to the support payable for one month, "(B) the date as of which the absent parent requests that such withholding begin, or "(C) such earlier date as the State may select. "(4)(A) Such withholding must be carried out in full compliance with all procedural due process requirements of the State, and (subject to subparagraph (B)) the State must send advance notice to each absent parent to whom paragraph (1) applies regarding the proposed withholding and the procedures such absent parent should follow if he or she desires to contest such withholding on the grounds that withholding (including the amount to be withheld) is not proper in the case involved because of mistakes of fact. If the absent parent contests such withholding on those grounds, the State shall determine whether such withholding will actually occur, shall (within no more than 45 days after the provision of such advance notice) inform such parent of whether or not withholding will occur and (if so) of the date on which it is to begin, and shall furnish such parent with the information contained in any notice given to the employer under paragraph (6)(A) with respect to such withholding. "(B) The requirement of advance notice set forth in the first sentence of subparagraph (A) shall not apply in the case of any State which has a system of income withholding for child support purposes in effect on the date of the enactment of this section if such system provides on that date, and continues to provide, such procedures as may be necessary to meet the procedural due process requirements of State law.

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