OAR 137-055-6010
Definitions for Distribution and Disbursement

For purposes of OAR 137-055-6020 (Disbursement by Electronic Funds Transfer/Electronic Data Interchange) through 137-055-6024 (Allocation of Collections to Multiple Cases), the following definitions apply:
(1) “Assistance” means cash assistance under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, or foster care maintenance payments provided by the Department of Human Services (DHS), or cost of care provided by the Oregon Youth Authority (OYA).
(2) “Current support” means the monthly support amount ordered by a court or administrative process for the benefit of a child or a former spouse.
(3) “Electronic funds transfer (EFT)” and “Electronic data interchange (EDI)” means the movement of funds and information by nonpaper means, usually through a payment system including, but not limited to, an automated clearing house (ACH), the Federal Reserve’s Fedwire system, magnetic tape, direct deposit, or stored value card.
(4)(a) “Family’s conditionally assigned arrears” means arrears that accrued during non-assistance periods that were not permanently assigned under pre-October 1997 assignments, and were temporarily assigned to the state during an assistance period and conditionally reassigned back to the family on the latter of the following:
(A) October 1, 2000, if the family terminated assistance prior to that date;
(B) The date the family left the assistance program if on or after October 1, 2000 and before conversion to the Origin automated child support system; or
(C) Upon conversion to the Origin automated child support system.
(b) Beginning October 1, 2009, for TANF assignments, and beginning June 1, 2018, for foster care and OYA assignments, and no new conditionally assigned arrears will be created.
(c) The Family’s conditionally assigned arrears that were in existence upon conversion to the Origin automated child support system will remain conditionally assigned and will be paid to the state only if collected through federal tax offset, not to exceed the family’s unreimbursed assistance.
(5) “Family’s unassigned arrears” means past-due support that accrues after the family’s most recent period of assistance, that accrued between periods of assistance and are not conditionally assigned, or that accrued at any time in the case where a family has never received assistance.
(6) “Family’s unassigned during assistance arrears” means:
(a) Past-due support that accumulates while a family receives assistance and exceeds the total amount of unreimbursed assistance paid to the family; or
(b) Permanently assigned arrears that were deassigned to be payable to the family because DHS established an overpayment claim for assistance. Permanently assigned arrears will be deassigned as follows:
(A) When the overpayment established by DHS is the full amount of assistance for that time period, permanently assigned arrears will be deassigned by the amount that accrued as arrears during the time period of the overpayment;
(B) Unless paragraph (6)(b)(C) of this rule applies, when the overpayment established by DHS is less than the full amount of assistance for that time period, permanently assigned arrears will be deassigned by the amount by which the permanently assigned arrears balance exceeds the unreimbursed assistance as adjusted for the overpayment; or
(C) When the overpayment established by DHS is less than the full amount of assistance for that time period and the obligee or DHS has provided documentation establishing that some but not all months in the time period were overpaid in full, permanently assigned arrears will be deassigned by the amount that accrued as arrears during any month for which the overpayment established by DHS includes the entire grant amount, without regard to the unreimbursed assistance balance. If the resulting permanently assigned arrears balance exceeds the unreimbursed assistance as adjusted for the overpayment, the permanently assigned arrears will be further deassigned by the amount by which the resulting permanently assigned arrears exceeds the unreimbursed assistance as adjusted for the overpayment.
(7) “Deassigned” means the process of reassigning arrears that are owed to the state so that they are owed to the family as unassigned arrears.
(8) “Future support” means an amount received that represents payment on current support or arrears for future months.
(9) “Pass-through” means an amount collected and applied to current child support that is assigned for TANF but is disbursed to the obligee before any remaining amount of current support is retained by the state.
(10) “State’s permanently assigned arrears” means past-due support that accrues during the period the family receives assistance and past-due support that accrued before the family applied for assistance in pre-October 1997 assignments only.
(11) “State’s temporarily assigned arrears” means past-due support assigned to the state during assistance periods, but that accrued during non-assistance periods, and was not permanently assigned under pre-October 1997 assignments. Beginning October 1, 2009, for TANF assignments, and beginning June 1, 2018, for foster care and OYA assignments, state’s temporarily assigned arrears permanently revert to family’s conditionally assigned arrears when the family is no longer receiving assistance, and unassigned family arrears that accrue during non-assistance periods will no longer be temporarily assigned to the state during assistance periods.
(12) “Unreimbursed assistance” means the cumulative amount of assistance paid to a family or on behalf of a child or children for all months that has not been recovered by assigned support collections. The total amount of unreimbursed assistance that may be recovered is limited by the total amount of the assigned support obligation.
(13) “Allocation” means the process of determining how a collection received from or on behalf of a parent will be applied to one or more cases for which that parent owes support.
(14) “Distribution” means the process of applying a collection allocated to a case to the support obligations in that case.
(15) “Disbursement” means the process of sending funds from a collection to the person or entity entitled to receive them.

Source: Rule 137-055-6010 — Definitions for Distribution and Disbursement, https://secure.­sos.­state.­or.­us/oard/view.­action?ruleNumber=137-055-6010.

137‑055‑1010
Applicability of Rules in OAR 137, Division 55 137‑055‑1020
Child Support Program Definitions 137‑055‑1040
“Party Status” in Court and Administrative Proceedings 137‑055‑1060
Uniform Application for Child Support Enforcement Services 137‑055‑1070
Provision of Services 137‑055‑1080
Fees 137‑055‑1090
Good Cause 137‑055‑1100
Continuation of Services 137‑055‑1120
Case Closure 137‑055‑1140
Confidentiality of Records in the Child Support Program 137‑055‑1160
Confidentiality — Finding of Risk and Order for Nondisclosure of Information 137‑055‑1200
Use of Social Security Number by the Child Support Program 137‑055‑1320
Access to FPLS for Purposes of Parentage Establishment 137‑055‑1360
Access to FPLS for Parental Kidnapping, Child Custody or Visitation Purposes 137‑055‑1500
Incentive Payments 137‑055‑1600
Child Support Program Participant Grievance 137‑055‑1700
Division of Child Support as Garnishee — Service of Writ 137‑055‑1800
Limited English Proficiency 137‑055‑2020
Case Assignment 137‑055‑2045
Spousal Support 137‑055‑2060
Cases with Contradictory Purposes 137‑055‑2080
Office Responsible for Providing Services when Conflict of Interest 137‑055‑2100
Process Service 137‑055‑2120
Rules for Contested Case Hearings in the Child Support Program 137‑055‑2140
Delegations to Administrative Law Judge 137‑055‑2160
Requests for Hearing 137‑055‑2165
Requests to Reschedule Hearing 137‑055‑2170
Use of Lay Representatives at Administrative Hearings 137‑055‑2180
Reconsideration and Rehearing 137‑055‑2320
Requirement for Services — Obligor Bankruptcy Situations 137‑055‑2340
Obligor Bankruptcy Situations in General 137‑055‑2360
Obligor Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Situations 137‑055‑2380
Obligor Chapter 12 and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Situations 137‑055‑3020
Paternity Establishment Procedures 137‑055‑3040
Temporary Order for Support 137‑055‑3060
Establishing Paternity in Multiple Alleged Father Cases 137‑055‑3080
Responsibility of Administrator to Establish Paternity at Request of Self-Alleged Father 137‑055‑3100
Order Establishing Paternity for Failure to Comply with an Order for Parentage Testing 137‑055‑3120
Changing Child’s Surname on Birth Certificate When Paternity Established 137‑055‑3140
Reopening of Paternity Cases 137‑055‑3200
Pending Judicial Proceedings and Existing Support Orders 137‑055‑3220
Establishment of Past Support Orders 137‑055‑3240
Establishment of Arrears 137‑055‑3260
Correction of Mistakes in Orders 137‑055‑3280
Administrative Law Judge Order Regarding Arrears 137‑055‑3290
Entry of Contingency Orders When Child Out of Care 137‑055‑3300
Incarcerated Obligors 137‑055‑3360
Entering of Administrative Orders in the Register of the Circuit Court 137‑055‑3400
District Attorney Case Assignment for Modification or Suspension of Support 137‑055‑3410
Notice and Finding of Financial Responsibility or Modification 137‑055‑3420
Periodic Review and Modification of Child Support Order Amounts 137‑055‑3430
Substantial Change in Circumstance Modification of Child Support Order Amounts 137‑055‑3435
Physical Custody Changes: Adjusting Orders 137‑055‑3440
Effective Date of Modification Under ORS 25.527 137‑055‑3460
Processing Modifications When Unable to Find the Obligee 137‑055‑3480
Modification of a Support Order to Zero or Termination of a Support Order 137‑055‑3485
Establishment or Modification for a Child Who Is Approaching or Has Reached 18 Years of Age 137‑055‑3490
Suspension of Enforcement 137‑055‑3495
Redirection of Support 137‑055‑3500
Joinder of a New Party to a Child Support Proceeding 137‑055‑3620
Administrative Subpoena 137‑055‑3640
Enforcement of a Subpoena by License Suspension 137‑055‑3660
Multiple Child Support Judgments 137‑055‑3665
Multiple Child Support Judgments — Multiple Obligees 137‑055‑4040
New Hire Reporting Requirements 137‑055‑4060
Income Withholding — General Provisions, Requirements and Definitions 137‑055‑4080
Exceptions to Income Withholding 137‑055‑4130
Reduced Income Withholding 137‑055‑4160
Contested Income Withholding 137‑055‑4210
Withholder Penalties 137‑055‑4300
Support Enforcement by Methods Other than Income Withholding 137‑055‑4320
Collection of Delinquent Support Obligations Through the Oregon Department of Revenue 137‑055‑4340
Collection of Delinquent Support Obligations Through the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 137‑055‑4420
License Suspension for Child Support 137‑055‑4440
Liens Against Personal and Real Property 137‑055‑4450
Expiration and Release of Judgment Liens 137‑055‑4455
Expiration of Support Judgment Remedies 137‑055‑4460
Posting Security Bond or Other Guarantee of Payment of Overdue Support 137‑055‑4500
Financial Institution Data Match — Reasonable Fee 137‑055‑4510
Financial Institution Data Matches – Insurance Claims 137‑055‑4520
Garnishment 137‑055‑4540
Passport Denial and Release 137‑055‑4560
Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies 137‑055‑4620
Enforcing Health Care Coverage and Cash Medical Support 137‑055‑4640
Medical Support Notice — Plan Selection 137‑055‑5025
Payment of Child Support to an Escrow Agent 137‑055‑5030
Receipting of Support Payments 137‑055‑5035
Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer 137‑055‑5040
Accrual and Due Dates 137‑055‑5045
Inconsistent Provisions: Body of Order and Support or Money Award 137‑055‑5060
Billings for Support Payments 137‑055‑5080
Adding Interest 137‑055‑5110
Child Attending School 137‑055‑5120
Child Attending School — Arrears 137‑055‑5220
Satisfaction of Support Awards 137‑055‑5240
Credit for Support Payments not made to the Department of Justice 137‑055‑5400
Obligor Receiving Cash Assistance, Presumed Unable to Pay Child Support 137‑055‑5510
Request for Credit Against Child Support Arrears for Physical Custody of Child 137‑055‑5520
Request for Credit Against Child Support Arrears for Social Security or Veterans’ Benefits Paid Retroactively on Behalf of a Child 137‑055‑6010
Definitions for Distribution and Disbursement 137‑055‑6020
Disbursement by Electronic Funds Transfer/Electronic Data Interchange 137‑055‑6021
Allocation, Distribution, and Disbursement: General Provisions 137‑055‑6022
Distribution and Disbursement 137‑055‑6023
Exceptions to Allocation, Distribution, and Disbursement 137‑055‑6024
Allocation of Collections to Multiple Cases 137‑055‑6026
Payment Holds 137‑055‑6040
Right to Hearing to Contest Amount of Assigned Support 137‑055‑6120
Satisfaction of Arrears for Less Than Full Payment 137‑055‑6200
Adjusting Case Arrears When an Error is Identified 137‑055‑6210
Advance Payments of Child Support 137‑055‑6220
Recovery of Overpayments and Collection of Receivable Accounts 137‑055‑6240
Dishonored Payments on Support Accounts 137‑055‑6260
Return of Payments to Obligor or Other Jurisdiction 137‑055‑6280
Refund of Improper Tax Refund Collection 137‑055‑7040
Central Registry 137‑055‑7060
Initiating Jurisdiction Responsibilities – General Provisions 137‑055‑7100
Interstate Income Withholding 137‑055‑7120
Responding Jurisdiction Responsibilities – General Provisions 137‑055‑7140
Oregon as Responding Jurisdiction – Establishing Paternity 137‑055‑7180
Determining Controlling Order 137‑055‑7190
Review and Modification In Intergovernmental Cases
Last Updated

Jun. 8, 2021

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