Last summer, "cash medical support" came into being. What is cash medical support? First, it only applies in cases where someone is ordered to pay child support. Basically, when neither parent has private health insurance available, and the child is on the state medical card, the child support obligor (the person ordered to pay child support) must pay cash medical support.
Cash medical support is a way for the government to recover some of the money it pays out to cover otherwise uninsured kids. It is somewhat confusing to be paying child support to the custodial parent and cash medical support to the state, but that is just what happens.
When the obligor's income is less than 150% the federal poverty level for an individual (e.g., $15,600 in 2008), the cash medical support obligation will be $0.00.
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