Child support: enforcement.

Existing law requires, as a condition of eligibility for benefits under certain public assistance programs, including the CalWORKs and Medi-Cal programs, that applicants or recipients assign to the county any rights they may have to child support, as specified. Existing law delegates to the Department of Child Support Services and local child support agencies the responsibility for collecting and enforcing child support obligations, including child support delinquencies, as defined. This bill would prohibit the department or a local child support agency from collecting interest that has accrued on child support owed or assigned to the state or the county. The bill would also prohibit child support owed or assigned to the state or the county from accruing interest.