Table P-2 Statistical Overview for Five Consecutive Fiscal Years
Statistical Overview 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
TOTAL IV-D CASELOAD 1/ 14,228,533 13,923,541 13,604,791 13,203,628 12,665,871
Current Assistance 1,320,765 1,238,490 1,160,203 1,101,490 940,451
Former Assistance 6,013,382 5,823,149 5,598,144 5,346,942 5,103,708
Never Assistance 6,894,386 6,861,902 6,846,444 6,755,196 6,621,712
CASES OPEN (line 1) 14,206,496 13,902,481 13,586,388 13,187,027 12,650,473
Current Assistance 1,313,898 1,232,056 1,153,753 1,095,385 935,228
Former Assistance 6,002,555 5,812,963 5,589,863 5,339,649 5,096,751
Never Assistance 6,890,043 6,857,462 6,842,772 6,751,993 6,618,494
CASES WITH NO JURISDICTION (line 3) 22,037 21,060 18,403 16,601 15,398
Current Assistance 6,867 6,434 6,450 6,105 5,223
Former Assistance 10,827 10,186 8,281 7,293 6,957
Never Assistance 4,343 4,440 3,672 3,203 3,218
NUMBER OF CHILDREN 15,147,168 14,727,814 14,271,105 13,820,764 13,202,278
TOTAL CASES WITH COLLECTIONS 8,899,837 8,749,731 8,593,759 9,099,871 8,440,747
Current Assistance 457,530 428,407 407,941 454,223 383,200
Former Assistance 3,656,427 3,560,465 3,441,221 3,752,990 3,419,916
Never Assistance 4,785,880 4,760,859 4,744,597 4,892,658 4,637,631
PERCENTAGE OF CASES WITH COLLECTIONS 62.6 62.9 63.3 69.0 66.7
Current Assistance 34.8 34.8 35.4 41.5 41.0
Former Assistance 60.9 61.3 61.6 70.3 67.1
Never Assistance 69.5 69.4 69.3 72.5 70.1
TOTAL CASES WITH ORDERS ESTABLISHED 12,384,637 12,168,067 11,913,254 11,500,090 11,081,700
Current Assistance 872,691 815,662 764,543 709,162 629,594
Former Assistance 5,504,446 5,351,044 5,154,415 4,928,597 4,713,200
Never Assistance 6,007,500 6,001,361 5,994,296 5,862,331 5,738,906
PERCENTAGE OF CASES WITH ORDERS ESTABLISHED 87.2 87.5 87.7 87.2 87.6
Current Assistance 66.4 66.2 66.3 64.7 67.3
Former Assistance 91.7 92.1 92.2 92.3 92.5
Never Assistance 87.2 87.5 87.6 86.8 86.7
PERCENTAGE OF CASES WITH COLLECTIONS TO CASES WITH ORDERS 71.9 71.9 72.1 79.1 76.2
Current Assistance 52.4 52.5 53.4 64.1 60.9
Former Assistance 66.4 66.5 66.8 76.1 72.6
Never Assistance 79.7 79.3 79.2 83.5 80.8
TOTAL PATERNITIES ESTABLISHED OR ACKNOWLEDGED 1,434,502 1,413,200 1,401,272 1,223,655 1,472,708
IV-D Paternities Established or Acknowledged 2/ 385,760 367,217 357,361 260,081 265,552
In-Hospital and Other Paternities Acknowledged 3/ 1,048,742 1,045,983 1,043,911 963,574 1,207,156
TOTAL SUPPORT ORDERS ESTABLISHED 935,948 872,281 837,554 620,114 610,743
Current Assistance 143,630 127,948 120,175 90,578 83,099
Former Assistance 255,003 231,749 214,412 155,089 145,647
Never Assistance 537,315 512,584 502,967 374,447 381,997
FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT STAFF 51,037 50,211 51,102 49,078 47,806
Source: Form OCSE-157.
1/ Total IV-D Caseload combines lines 1 (cases open) and 3 (cases with no jurisdiction) of the OCSE-157 report.
2/ Paternities Established or Acknowledged for the current year are reported on line 16 of the OCSE-157 report.
3/ In-Hospital and Other Paternities Acknowledged are reported on line 10 of the OCSE-157 report and include an unknown number of acknowledgements for children in the IV-D caseload.