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Dunn County child support office reports cooperative-agreement revenue and staffing vacancy
Summary
The county child support office reported 2024 cooperative-agreement revenues, noted less billable time from Corporation Counsel staff last year and said it will recruit to fill a program coordinator vacancy while using backfill arrangements with neighboring counties in the interim.
Josie, a representative of the Dunn County child support office, briefed the Judiciary and Law Committee on 2024 cooperative-agreement revenue transfers and a staffing vacancy.
Josie said the 2024 revenue transfers — agreements with the Clerk of Courts and Corporation Counsel to assign billable work to those offices as subcontractors — were "way better than I thought it was going to be." She explained that lower billable hours from Corporation Counsel in 2024 were largely due to an assistant corporation counsel taking leave early in the year.
Josie also reported a vacancy for the program coordinator position in the child support office and said she planned to meet with human resources to begin recruitment. In the short term, she said the office is coordinating backfill with neighboring counties.
On misinformation about the child tax credit, Josie said the child support agency does not take a position on which parent may claim a child tax credit; rather, family court orders and the IRS/Department of Revenue determine tax claims. She characterized a recent social-media claim that the paying parent is always the only person who can claim a child as false.
Ending: Josie will proceed with recruitment for the coordinator position and said constituents should contact the Clerk of Courts for enforcement remedies if someone violates a court order about tax claims.
