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Nationally, child support collection is big business. In 2002, in
compliance with federal law, states collected more than $20 billion in
child support with more than $92 billion yet in arrears. Since the early
1980s, total child support collected by the Office of the Attorney
General (OAG) in Texas has grown steadily in raw dollars and as a
percentage of national collections. Today more than two thirds of the
Attorney General's staff--about 2700 of 3700 employees--work in the
child support division with an annual budget of more than $230 million
funded mostly by federal dollars and state-retained collections.
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