Percentage-of-Income Model Rankings — Coming Back Soon
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) FY2022 Annual Report, U.S. state Title IV-D agencies serve more than 12,500,000 active cases. This ranking surfaces the U.S. states whose income-model child-support formulas assign the highest percentages of obligor income; see our methodology for data vintage.
We are rebuilding our percentage-of-income state ranking with figures computed live from the formula_type column in our states table.
Why this page is being rebuilt
We removed the previous narrative because the formula-type classification (Indiana, Nebraska, Ohio listed as "percentage of income" — actually income-shares states in our database) and several percentage figures (Wisconsin "31% for three", Nebraska "19.5% for one", Indiana "21% for one") did not match our states table. The replacement will compute the ranking live from the formula_type column so the headline matches the underlying classification.