Minnesota State Law
1. General Program-At-A-Glance
1. How many local child support offices are in your state excluding agencies with cooperative agreements? |
87 Counties and 4 Tribal IV-D offices |
2. What is the name of your IV-D agency? |
The Minnesota Child Support Division (CSD) supervises the county and tribal IV-D agencies. The county and tribal IV-D agencies administer the program. |
3. Is your state administrative, judicial, or a combination of both? In particular, does your state primarily use judicial or administrative procedures to establish and/or enforce support orders? Please describe. |
Minnesota uses the judicial process to establish and modify support. Minnesota primarily enforces support orders administratively.
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4. Does your state use the following applications: EDE, CSENET, QUICK? |
Yes. |
2. Duration Of Support
3. Statute Of Limitations
4. Support Details
5. Paternity/Parentage
6. Support Order Establishment
7. Income Withholding
8. Distribution
1. Does your state pass through collections (and disregard collections for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) eligibility purposes) in current assistance cases? If yes, provide the amount and explain. |
Yes. For assistance units that receive child support income where there is only 1 child in the unit, up to $100 of child support received is disregarded or passed through. For assistance units that receive child support income where there are 2 or more children in the unit, up to $200 of child support received is disregarded or passed through. This applies to arrears and current child support payments. This disregard is applied to the unit, not per child. |
2. Does your state participate in the pass-through in former assistance cases? If yes, provide the date and explain. |
No. |
3. In former assistance cases, are federal income tax refund offset payments applied to families first (DRA distribution) or state arrears first (PRWORA distribution)? |
State arrears first (PRWORA distribution). |
4. How does your state distribute payments when the noncustodial parent has arrears due to your state and another state? |
There is no difference in distribution for intergovernmental cases. |
4.1. If there are no arrears due to your state, how does your state distribute payments when the noncustodial parent has arrears due to multiple states? |
There is no difference in distribution for intergovernmental cases.
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9. Enforcement
1. What data matches (for example, financial institution, state lottery) and enforcement remedies are available through Automated Administrative Enforcement in Interstate Cases (AEI) in your state? (See AT-08-06: Implementing Section 466(a)(14) of the Social Security Act, High-Volume, Automated Administrative Enforcement in Interstate Cases.) |
Financial institution data match. |
2. What criteria must be met, and in addition to Transmittal #3, what documentation does your state require to proceed with an AEI request? |
An AEI request to Minnesota is processed through Minnesota's Central Registry. The requesting state sends an Interstate Transmittal #3 with a request for AEI assistance. The requesting state must certify the amount of the support delinquency, certify that the requesting state's procedural due process requirements for a levy have been met, and provide sufficient information to enable Minnesota to compare information about the cases. |
3. What are your state's criteria for reporting a noncustodial parent's child support information to credit bureaus? |
Prior to January 1, 2023, if the noncustodial parent has not paid the current monthly support obligation plus any required arrearage payment for three months, the child support agency must report this information to a consumer reporting agency. After January 1, 2023, the child support agency may report this information to a consumer reporting agency.
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4. To which credit bureaus does your state report a noncustodial parent's child support information? |
Transunion, Equifax and Innovis. |
5. Is the method for credit bureau reporting judicial, administrative, or both? |
Administrative. |
6. Can a noncustodial parent who no longer has a past-due account have the report removed from the credit bureau? If so, what must the noncustodial parent do?" |
Credit-reporting terminates automatically when the arrears balance equals $0.00 at the end of the previous month. |
7. When your state is the responding state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSE for federal administrative offset? If yes, what is the minimum required past-due amount? |
No. |
8. When your state is the initiating state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSE for federal administrative offset? If yes, what is the minimum required past-due amount? |
No. |
9. When your state is the responding state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSE for insurance match? If yes, what is the minimum required past-due amount? |
10. When your state is the initiating state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSE for insurance match? If yes, what is the minimum required past-due amount? |
11. When your state is the responding state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSE for MSFIDM? If yes, what is the minimum required past-due amount? |
12. When your state is the initiating state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSE for MSFIDM? If yes, what is the minimum past-due amount? |
13. When your state is the responding state, does it submit past-due cases to OCSE for passport denial? |
14. Are the financial institution attachment procedures in your state judicial, administrative, or both? |
Both. |
15. Are there specific account types exempt from the administrative financial institution attachment process in your state? If yes, which account types are exempt? |
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16. Is the financial institution attachment process in your state centralized and/or automated? |
The interface with financial institutions is automated and the attachment process initiated at the county level. |
17. What are the criteria to attach an account in a financial institution in your state? |
18. Does your state's law require financial institutions doing business in your state to accept enforcement actions directly from other states? If yes, provide the statutory citation. Please explain. |
No.
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19. If there are no statutory criteria required to attach an account, describe the process for requesting a financial institution attachment from another child support agency (for example, a Transmittal #3) and list additional documentation required. |
If an initiating state is requesting a financial institution attachment, the order must be registered for enforcement in Minnesota or else the other state may utilize an AEI limited service request. See question 2 of the Enforcement section. |
20. Does your state's income withholding definition include amounts in financial institutions? |
Yes.
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21. Does your state require sending a notice of intent to the noncustodial parent when attaching an account in a financial institution? Who notifies the noncustodial parent - the state, the financial institution, or both? |
The child support agency sends the notice to the noncustodial parent.
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22. How long does the financial institution have to hold funds before sending the noncustodial parent's assets to your child support agency? |
45 calendar days.
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23. Does your state law or policy require the financial institution and/or state to hold the attached assets during the challenge or appeal time frame? If yes, provide the statutory citation and time frames. |
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24. What amount or percentage of the noncustodial parent's financial assets are eligible for attachment? Is this different for joint accounts? Please explain. |
Not applicable
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25. What are the criteria for a noncustodial parent and/or joint account holder to contest a financial institution attachment? |
The noncustodial parent may either file a claim of exemption, stating that the funds are exempt, (see answer to question 15 for information about exempt funds), with the child support agency and/or a motion to contest to support judgment levy with the court. There are limited legal grounds for a noncustodial parent to win a motion to contest a levy. The court must find there was a mistake of fact or a valid claim of exemption.
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26. Does your state have procedures to liquidate non-liquid assets (for example, stocks, bonds, etc.)? If yes, provide the statutory citation and the procedures to follow. |
No.
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27. What are your state's criteria for driver's license revocation/suspension for nonpayment of support? |
The total arrears balance must be greater than or equal to three times the total monthly accrual and $500.00, or the balance must be at least $500.00 for arrears-only cases.
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28. What are your state's criteria for driver's license restoration/reinstatement, including hardship exemptions? |
A professional license may be reinstated when the arrears balance is equal to $0, the noncustodial parent enters into a payment agreement, or if the worker manually reinstates the license because the remedy is not appropriate. Specific instances where it would be inappropriate to suspend the license include if the noncustodial receives need-based public assistance, or is currently incarcerated. |
29. Does your state allow temporary or conditional driver's licenses? If yes, what are the criteria? |
Yes. Minnesota has a limited license option that individuals can obtain one time in their life for 90 days after their license is suspended. |
30. What are your state's criteria for professional license revocation/suspension for nonpayment of support? Specify the professional license types. |
The total arrears balance must be greater than or equal to three times the total monthly accrual and $500.00, or the balance must be at least $500.00 for arrears-only cases. The types of professional licenses include those issued by both health-related licensing boards and non-health-related licensing boards. See Minn. Stat. Sect. 518A.66 and Minn. Stat. Sect. 214.01. |
31. What are your state's criteria for professional license restoration/reinstatement, including hardship exemptions? |
A professional license may be reinstated when the arrears balance is equal to $0, the noncustodial parent enters into a payment agreement, or if the worker manually reinstates the license because the remedy is not appropriate. Specific instances where it would be inappropriate to suspend the license include if the noncustodial receives need-based public assistance, or is currently incarcerated. |
32. Does your state allow temporary or conditional professional licenses? If yes, what are the criteria? |
No. |
33. What are your state's criteria for recreational license revocation/suspension for nonpayment of support? Specify the recreational license types. |
The noncustodial parent in arrears in an amount that is at least six times the total monthly payment amount and equal to or greater than $500.00. |
34. What are your state's criteria for recreational license restoration/reinstatement, including hardship exemptions? |
35. Does your state allow temporary or conditional recreational licenses? If yes, what are the criteria? |
No.
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36. What are the criteria for initiating/filing a lien in your state? |
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37. Is the lien process in your state primarily judicial, administrative, or both? Please describe. |
Both. Judgments are docketed and entered by the court, however, judgments may be renewed by the child support agency without a court order. |
38. Does your state enforce property seizure and sale? If so, is this process primarily judicial, administrative, or both? Please describe. |
Yes, it is a judicial process.
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39. Does your state have a state income tax refund offset as an enforcement remedy? If yes, describe whether the process for this remedy is primarily judicial, administrative, or a combination. |
Yes, administrative. |
40. Does your state intercept lottery or other types of gaming/gambling winnings in your state? If so, what kind of winnings are included? |
Yes, lottery prizes equaling $600 or more. |
40.1. If yes, is this enforcement judicial, administrative, or both? |
Administrative. |
41. What other administrative enforcement procedures are available in your state that are not otherwise described in the IRG? |
Student grant hold. |
42. What other judicial enforcement procedures are available in your state that are not otherwise described in the IRG? |
Civil contempt. |
10. Modification And Review/Adjustment
11. Lump Sum Payments
12. Cost Recovery And Fees
1. Does your state elect to recover costs in excess of any fees collected to cover administrative costs in your child support state plan? (See section 454(6) of the Social Security Act and 45 CFR 302.33(d).) If yes, does your state collect excess actual or standardized costs on a case-by-case basis? Please describe. |
Yes, a IV-D case in Minnesota meets the criteria to pay the fee if all of the following are true: The obligee on the case is also the applicant; the case program code is nonpublic assistance; the case is not an interstate responding case; the obligee and the obligee's children do not currently receive public assistance; the children have not received Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), Diversionary Work Program (DWP), or IV-E Foster Care (FCC) assistance in Minnesota for at least 24 months; and the children have not received Medical Assistance (MA) or Child Care Assistance (CCAP) in Minnesota for at least one month. |
1.1. If yes, does your state recover costs from the custodial parent or the noncustodial parent? (Note: No costs can be assessed against a foreign custodial parent applying through a Central Authority in a Hague Convention country, a foreign reciprocating country, or a foreign country with state-level reciprocity.) |
The cost recovery fee is charged to the applicant. |
2. Does your state recover costs on behalf of an initiating state that has elected to do cost recovery? If yes, describe. |
3. How does your state impose and collect the mandatory $35 annual fee (after collecting the first $550)? This fee is applicable in IV-D cases in which individuals who never received IV-A assistance are receiving IV-D services. (See 45 CFR 302.33(e).) See options below. |
3.1. Is it retained by the state from support collected? |
Yes. |
3.2. Is it paid by the individual applying for child support services? |
3.3. Is it recovered from the noncustodial parent? |
3.4. Is it paid by the state out of its state funds? |
13. Insurance Match
1. Does your state have legislation requiring insurance companies to work with child support agencies to identify claimants who owe past-due child support? Describe the requirements and provide the statutory citation. How does your state allocate payments when there is more than one claim against the noncustodial parent's income? Should the payment be divided equally or pro-rated among the cases? (See 45 CFR 303.100(a)(5).) |
No.
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2. What criteria must a noncustodial parent meet to be eligible for your state’s participation in the federal insurance match program? |
Arrears balance of at least $500. |
3. What process does your state use to intercept insurance payments? |
CSD generates a report of insurance matches received from the Child Support Portal and CSD staff will put an urgent note on the case for the worker to review and follow up with the potential payor of funds if appropriate.
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4. How does another state initiate and intercept collections from your state’s workers’ compensation agency? |
Workers compensation insurance is provided by private insurance companies and varies by employer. MN does not maintain a database of workers compensation insurance providers. Workers compensation benefits are paid by the provider.
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5. Does your state participate in the Child Support Lien Network or CSLN (which provides insurance match services)? |
No. |
14. Family Violence
15. CSENet
1. When your state is the initiating state, does it send a Child Support Enforcement Network (CSENet) case closure transaction to let the responding state know your state has closed its case (including the reason for closure) and/or the responding state's intergovernmental services are no longer needed? (MSC P GSC15; 45 CFR 303.7(c)(11).) |
Yes. |
2. When your state is the responding state, does it send a CSENet case closure transaction to notify the initiating state that its case is closed based on one of the following reasons: (MSC P GSC16)? Initiating state failure to take an action essential for the next steps? (45 CFR 303.11(b)(17).) The initiating state requested the responding state to close the case? (45 CFR 303.7(d)(10).) |
Yes. |
3. When your state is the initiating state, does it send a CSENet case closure transaction to notify the responding state that it must stop any income withholding orders or notices and close the intergovernmental case? (MSC P GSC17; 45 CFR 303.7(c)(12).) |
Yes. |
4. When your state is the responding state, does it send a CSENet case closure transaction to notify the initiating state that, per its request, the case is closed, and your state has stopped its income withholding order? (MSC P GSC18; 45 CFR 303.7(d)(9).) |
Yes. |
5. Does your state send CSENet transactions to request interest information? (MSC R GRINT) |
Yes. |
6. Does your state send CSENet transactions to provide another state with interest and arrears information? (MSC P GSTAI) |
Yes. |
16. Copies Of Orders And Payment Records
17. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA)
18. International - Reciprocity
1. With which foreign countries or other jurisdictions (such as Quebec) does your state have state-level reciprocity for child support? (Do not include federal foreign reciprocating or Hague Convention countries.) |
Bermuda. |
2. Does your state exercise its option for enforcement of spousal-only orders for a foreign reciprocating country, a Hague Convention country, or a foreign country with which your state has state-level reciprocity? (See section 454(32)(B) of the Social Security Act.) |
3. Does your state agency accept direct applications for services from individuals residing outside the United States (See UIFSA 307 - Alternative A), or does your state's law allow discretion in accepting these applications (See UIFSA 307 - Alternative B)? |
Yes, they must be accepted as MN has adopted UIFSA Sect. 307 - Alternative A. |
19. International Information For Hague Convention Countries
1. When a Hague Convention country seeks registration of a Convention support order in your state, does your state allow the country to send an abstract (or summary) of the order on the Hague Abstract of a Decision form in lieu of the complete text? (See UIFSA 706(b) (1).) |
Yes.
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2. Does your state send and receive pleadings and documents electronically in international cases? If yes, specify the types of pleadings and documents your state can send and receive electronically. |
No. |
3. What methods of personal service does your state use? |
Personal service may be effectuated by the sheriff or other public official as well as by a private contractor. |
4. When establishing a child support order, what can be included as add-ons to the child support guideline amount? Please provide the relevant statutory or case law citation. (See also question 1 under Support Details.) |
Child expenses and cash medical support.
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5. Does your state encourage amicable solutions between parents to promote voluntary payment of support, such as the use of mediation, conciliation, or similar consent processes? If yes, describe. |
No, while Minnesota encourages amicable solutions between parents in all matters, these are not services the IV-D agency currently provides. |
6. What circumstances will cause your state to end child support before the normal duration? |
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20. International Payments
1. How does your state disburse child support payments to foreign reciprocating and Hague Convention countries when your state is the responding state in a case? |
We currently send State of Minnesota warrants. We have not been contacted by any of the foreign/Hague Countries with a request or information on how to remit electronic payments or wires to their agency. |
2. What actions does your state take to reduce the costs and fees associated with international payment processing? |
None. |
3. Does your state accept electronic payments from foreign reciprocating or Hague Convention countries in international cases? If so, provide payment instructions. |
Does your state accept electronic payments from foreign reciprocating or Hague Convention countries in international cases? If so, provide payment instructions. We do and currently only receive wire payments from one foreign entity. The instructions are provided below. Please find bank account details to remit a wire payment to the Minnesota Child Support Division below. Please only send payments when your country and the state of Minnesota are working on a case together under the Hague Convention. Account Name: State of MN DHS Account Number: 104757767660 Bank Name: U.S. Bank Bank Address: 101 East Fifth St, Saint Paul, MN 55101 U.S. Bank SWIFT BIC code: USBKUS44IMT Sender Name: Remitter's name, 10 digit Minnesota case participant MCI number and/or 12 digit Minnesota case ID number. All funds should be remitted as USD. MN Child Support Division Contact: Contact Name: Kim Monita, Dawn Johnson Minnesota Child Support Payment Center PO Box 64326 St. Paul, MN 55164 Email: kimberly.monita@state.mn.us; dawn.m.johnson@state.mn.us Phone Number: +1-651-431-4884 Fax Number: +1-651-431-7469 |
21. Tribal Non IV-D
1. Has your state established cooperative arrangements with any Indian tribes or tribal organizations that don't have a tribal IV-D program? |
No. |
1.1. If yes, list the tribes and identify services provided, if less than full services. |
Not applicable.
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2. Does your state have any IV-D attorneys licensed to practice in the courts of Indian tribes or tribal organizations that don't have tribal IV-D programs? |
The state offices does not have a record of them. |