Noncompliance results in the loss of $147.5 million in federal funds
SANTA FE – Senator Gay Kernan and Representative Daymon Ely announced the introduction of legislation that modernizes New Mexico child support law and brings it in compliance with federal law that will collect more child support for New Mexico kids. Additionally, New Mexico will lose $147.5 million in federal funding: $122.6 million for the Temporary Assistance for Low-Income Families (TANF) program and $24.9 million in child support administrative/program funding if it fails to comply with federal law.
