5101:12-50-32.6 The federal income tax refund offset process.

 

 

 

5101:12-50-32.6          The federal income tax refund offset process.

 

 

 

(A)     An  obligor  is  subject  to  federal  income  tax  refund  offset  when  the  following conditions have been met:

 

(1)  The federal income tax refund offset submission criteria has been met;

 

(2)   The federal office of child support enforcement (OCSE) has certified that the obligor is eligible for federal income tax refund offset; and

 

(3)    The internal revenue service has notified the financial management service (FMS) that the obligor will receive a federal income tax refund.

 

(B)  FMS will satisfy submitted debts in the following priority:

 

(1)   Tax levy for federal tax debts;

 

(2)   Assigned and unassigned child support debts;

 

(3)   Other federal debts; and

 

(4) Unassigned child support debts; and

 

(5)(4) State tax debts.

 

(C)  The federal income tax refund offset process.

 

(1)   FMS sends an offset notice to the obligor after FMS has processed the offset but before the office of child support (OCS) within the Ohio department of job and family services has been notified of the offset. FMS will also send a notice to a joint federal taxpayer who filed taxes jointly with the obligor, advising the joint federal taxpayer of the steps required to protect the share of the tax refund that may be payable to the joint federal taxpayer.

 

(2)     When the obligor cannot be located, the federal tax refund offset will be reversed by FMS.

 

(3)   FMS notifies OCSE on a bi-weeklyweekly basis of offsets and adjustments that occur.

 

(4)   OCSE issues to OCS the a listreports that includesinclude obligors for whom offsets and adjustments have occurred and the amounts of those offsets and

 

 

adjustments.  These  reports  are  described  in  paragraph  (C)(1)  of  rule 5101:12-50-32.8 of the Administrative Code.

(5)   FMS sends the offset amounts to the Ohio office of the treasurer.

(6)    The Ohio office of the treasurer notifies the office of fiscal services (OFS) within the Ohio department of job and family services of receipt of the offset amounts.

(7)   OFS then transfers the offset amounts, together with the amount of any fees and adjustments to cover one hundred percentper cent of the offset amount, to the Ohio child support payment central (CSPC) for disbursement.

(8)     CSPC processes the offset amount received to the appropriate order in the support enforcement tracking system (SETS).

(D)     Offset amounts shall be considered collections in the month in which they are received and applied to any arrears of the obligor that met the offset criteria.

(E)   When a state has CSENet collection (COL) transaction capability with Ohio, the COL P CITAX transaction will be automatically sent to the state by SETS whenever an offset collection is received.

(F)   If the state does not have CSENet COL transaction capability with Ohio, or the child support enforcement agency (CSEA) determines that the transaction was not sent, the CSEA shall send the OMB 0970-0085, "Transmittal #3 - Request for Assistance/Discovery," to any other state that is involved in the enforcement of the interstateintergovernmental case no later than three business days from the receipt of an offset amount in an interstateintergovernmental case. The OMB 0970-0085 notifies the other state of the receipt of the offset amount.

Effective:                                                     09/01/2011

R.C. 119.032 review dates:                         05/26/2011 and 10/01/2015

CERTIFIED ELECTRONICALLY

Certification

08/02/2011

Date

Promulgated Under:                           119.03

Statutory Authority:                           3123.81, 3125.25

Rule Amplifies:                                  3123.81, 3125.03, 3125.25

Prior Effective Dates:                         11/9/81, 6/10/82 (Emer), 9/13/82, 5/1/86 (Emer),

7/20/86, 11/1/86, 12/20/88, 3/18/89, 8/9/90, 4/1/91,

11/1/91, 7/1/92, 2/11/93, 9/1/94, 11/1/94, 1/1/96,

8/1/98, 5/1/01, 4/11/03, 7/1/06