When most employers think of child support, they focus on requirements for the payroll/garnishment department. However there are at least three specific situations in which other departments are involved. How HR, IT and Benefits handle their obligations does affect the garnishment department.

Join Amy Bryant, CPP noted employer wage garnishment author and consultant and Lynnetta Thompson, Employer Services Analyst federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) for a discussion about requirements on the below program areas and which can affect the garnishment department. 

National Medical Support Notice (NMSN)

• Both the employer (normally HR department) and the benefits administrator have a dual role when responding to the NMSN.  
• Participants will learn basic requirements (HR) and Benefit Administrator must carry out and the overall affect in correctly handling the withholding limits when both cash support and medical support premiums are deducted.

New Hire Reporting 

• Federal law requires employers to report their new hires within a certain timeframe.  Because new hires or at least the paper work for new hires is generally handled by the HR department, new hire reporting is initiated by HR in most companies.   However, this function is often turned over to IT to automate reporting.  You will learn:
• What recent changes were made to the new hire reporting law.
• What exposure your company has when reports stop generating.
• What happens when mergers, acquisitions and sales of companies take place
• Tips on how to prevent receiving non-compliance letters or being assessed penalties for improperly reporting.
• How to simplify the reporting requirements.

Standard Response for Verification of Employment

• Employers are continually bombarded with requests for employee personal data as well as information about benefits options from state agencies. Find out about the Standard Verification of Employment Response form created by an OCSE workgroup in an effort to streamline employer responses to each state's specific request for employment/benefits information.  Learn why:
• Support agencies need accurate salary information.
• Support agencies need benefits information
• The garnishment department suffers when reports that are not correctly completed and returned to the agencies.

Additional Requirements that Require Coordination

Employers must notify the agency when an employee is terminated or resigns.

Notification when bonus, back pay awards and other lump sum payments will be made to employees subject to support orders.

Register quickly and easily online  to secure your space now. Or, please call 1-800-372-1033 option 6, then sub-menu option 1, and refer to date and title of conference. Lines are open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET, excluding most federal holidays.

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• Quality. Count on it. Nothing is canned.
• Objectivity. BNA provides you with the best and most objective information. Unlike other companies, we don't use our Webinars as a forum to sell outside solutions.
• Affordability. BNA Webinars are inexpensive compared to the cost of travel to attend a conference. Plus, you may use a speakerphone and invite as many of your colleagues as you want to listen in-all for the price of a single registration.
• Convenience. No airlines. No travel. No time out of the office.

In addition, you'll receive:

• Personal attention. Once you've registered, send your questions in advance to rbronson@bna.com and they'll be included in the program. You'll also have a chance to ask your questions during the Webinar.
• Follow-up materials. You need no materials upfront to follow along to our live conference. But BNA always issues a follow up e-mail with contact information for our speakers, as well as other materials related to the topic.
• 1.0 CPE or APA RCH credits by attending this Webinar. Find out how.

BNA is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors.  State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.  Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org

Prerequisite: No prerequisites required
Level: Basic

Delivery Method: Group-Internet

Advanced Preparation: None required
Recommended CPE Credit: 1.5

Recordings of the program do not qualify for CPE credits. For more information regarding administrative policies such as complaint and refund, please contact our offices at 800-372-1033.

Amy Bryant, CPP; Lynnetta Thompson, Employer Services Analyst federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)