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Reporting Instructions: CORe Code 7474

Child Support - County Cooperative Agreements

Expenditures related to intra-county cooperative agreements must be reported on this line.  These costs are limited to the expenditures incurred under a signed cooperative agreement and must be attributable to the child support program. 

The Child Support Agency is required to develop a methodology to determine the portion of the cooperating agency’s costs that are attributable to child support cases.  Costs incurred by a cooperating agency may include, but are not limited to: salaries, fringe benefits, telephone, postage, printing, and office supplies.  Do not report child support expenditures incurred by a cooperative agency on any other line. 

Expenses incurred by cooperating agencies should be reported on this line net of any fees collected by those agencies.  At this time, there is no CORe line for fees/revenue received by cooperative agencies, therefore, expenditures for cooperating agencies must be reported net of fees/revenue.  Fees/revenue netted out on this line would be any fees paid by IV-D participants to a cooperative agency for work performed by the cooperative agency. 

Example:  The clerk of courts (COC) charges time and prorated copier costs to the IV- D program for copies of court orders provided to case participants.  The COC also charges participants for copies of court documents.  Net out photocopy fees on this CORe Line by subtracting the portion of the COC fees attributed to IV-D cases from the portion of COC costs claimed under the cooperative agreement.

Do not report costs associated with outside contracts, such as contracts with private attorneys, contracts with process servers, and contracts for genetic testing on this line.

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