Record Amount of Child Support Collected
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With a little help from the IRS, the Ventura County district attorney’s office said Thursday it set a record for child-support collections in April.
The office collected $5,248,648 largely by having the tax refunds of those behind on their payments sent directly to the district attorney’s office. The amount was up from $1,101,585 during the same month last year.
Stan Trom, head of the district attorney’s child-support division, said the IRS helped funnel the checks to his office.
Collections from May 2000 through April 2001 were $47,915,441, an increase of 11% over the previous 12-month period, Trom said.
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