F&F: MA Knocks Down Interest on Overdue Child Support by 50%

Blog entry here. Excerpt:

'The Massachusetts Department of Revenue has decided to knock down the interest on overdue child support by 50%. This is a move for which Fathers and Families has long advocated and agitated, both publicly and by Board Chairman Ned Holstein, MD, MS during his service on the Massachusetts Child Support Task Force. While interest rates still remain too high, we commend the DOR for this action.

Fathers and Families has long fought to reform Massachusetts child support, and was successful in lowering noncustodial parents’ child support by an estimated $200 million a year from 2001 to 2007. Holstein and numerous Fathers and Families members testified earlier this year at the DOR hearing considering the issue.'