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Office
of Child Support Enforcement
1117 Center Street, PO Box 788
New Ulm, MN 56073-0788
Phone: (507) 354-8246 or 1-800-450-8246
Fax: (507) 359-6542
If you
choose to contact us directly by email,
please know because of security reasons, we
will not email you back, but, we will
respond to your email via phone call or a letter.
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How
can I apply for Child Support Services?
If you are
not receiving public assistance(MFIP, Medical Assistance, Minnesota
Care or child care assistance), you can apply for child support
services through your county child support office. You will have
to pay a $25 application fee for these services. There is also
a fee of 1% collected for each payment collected.
If you receive public assistance and you are the parent of a minor
child whose other parent does not live in your home, you do not
have to pay the fee. Your case is automatically referred for child
support services.
Contact the Brown County Child Support Unit for an application
or Click
Here to download your application now.
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What
services are available?
Our office
can assist with:
- Locating
parents
- Establishing
parentage
- Establishing
court orders for child support, medical support, and child care
support
- Reviewing
and modifying court orders for child support, medical support,
and child care support
- Adjusting
court orders based on the cost-of-living index
- Enforcing
court orders for child support, medical and dental support,
and child care support
- Working
with other states to enforce support when one parent does not
live in Minnesota
- Collecting
and processing payments
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What
is included in Child Support?
Orders for child support
generally include three types of support, basic child support,
medical support and child care reimbursement. In Minnesota, the
court addresses all three types of child support but may not order
all three.
Medical
support
In Minnesota,
the court requires that children be covered by health and dental
insurance. The court may order a parent to:
- Purchase
Insurance
- Cover reasonable
and necessary medical expenses
- Pay a minimum
dollar amount per month (in addition to the child support amount)
toward the cost of insurance or medical expenses.
- Pay a portion
of uninsured medical or dental expenses
Child
care support
The court
must review child care expenses that occur when the parent the
child lives with works or goes to school. Using each parent's
income the court decides each parent's portion of financial responsibility
for child care support.
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Can
my order be reviewed?
Child support orders
can be changed by court orders and by cost-of-living adjustments.
Either parent may request in writing that the child support office
review their order. The request should state reasons for the review.
County child
support staff determine whether the existing order meets review
requirements. If it does, the staff completes the review and presents
the request to the court. If the requirements for a review are not
met, the county child support office notifies the parents. If either
parent still wants a review, the parent can file a motion asking
the court to review the order.
Support
orders may be changed if there is:
- A substantial
increase or decrease in either parent's income
- A substantial
increase or decrease in the needs of a parent or child (such
as changes in child care needs because of work or educational
needs)
- A change
in a child's or parent's cost of living
- A change
in custody
- Extraordinary
medical expenses for the child
- Any of
these changes makes the terms of the original order unreasonable
or unfair
There
is a substantial change in the circumstances if:
- Based on
the obligor's current income, changing the current order would
result in a child support amount that is at least 20 percent
and at least 50 higher or lower than the current order.
- Medical
support provisions are not enforceable
- Health
coverage ordered is not available to the child for whom the
order is established
Contact Brown
County child support unit at 507-354-8246 or 1-800-450-8246 to
start your review or to proceed on your own Click
Here to download the necessary paperwork.
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Where
can payment be sent?
MN
Child Support Payment Center
PO Box 64326
St. Paul, MN 55164-0306
How quickly are payments processed by
the state?
Staff at the
payment center receipt payments Sunday through Friday. Within
24 hours of receiving the payment, the child support payment center
records the payment on the child support computer system and are
then able to send most payments to the obligees via their SVC(Stored
Value Card) or else they are directly deposited into a bank account
of their choice.
How can I get payment information?
Call the
child support payment line at 1-800-657-3512. Parents must use
their personal identification number (PIN) to access this information.
or
Check your
child support case online Here!
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Frequently
Asked Questions:
- When
will I receive a payment?
- Why
haven't I reveived a payment for a while?
- What
is the other parents address and place of employment?
- I
received a billing statement - 1. Why did I receive it and 2.
I don't believe I owe that much?
- How
do I sign up for direct deposit?
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When
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Why
haven't I received a payment for a while?
- There
are many reasons for a delay in payment: 1. The non custodial
parent may have switched jobs; 2. The non custodial parent may
not have worked the prior week and there is no money for the
payor of funds to send in to the state of MN Child Support Payment
Center; 3. There are many other reasons that may require our
office to contact the payor of funds.
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What
is the other parents address and place of employment?
- This
is private data and cannot be shared.
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I
received a billing statement - 1. Why did I receive it and 2.
I don't believe I owe that much?
- 1.
The federal government requires that we send a billing statement
out to all non custodial parents. This is your record to make
sure the state of MN is receiving all the monies submitted by
yourself, your employer or payor of funds. 2. The billing cycle
ends on the last day of the month prior to you receiving your
billing statement. Therefore a payment may have been withheld
from the prior month's wages but not received by the state of
MN Child Support Payment Center until the current month. Therefore
that payment will not be credited on the current billing statement.
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How
do I sign up for direct deposit?
- Contact
your local child support office for the brochures regarding
direct deposit. You will be required to submit the information
directly to the MN child support payment center to set up for
either direct deposit or to receive a stored value card.
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