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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55490</law_id><section_number>63.2-1951</section_number><catch_line>Interest on support payments collected</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="63.2">Welfare (Social Services)</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="V">Administrative Child Support</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="19">Child Support Enforcement</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="10">Financial Operations</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall pay interest to the <span class="dictionary">payee</span> as provided in this section on certain spousal or <span class="dictionary">child</span> support payments it collects which have been ordered by a <span class="dictionary">court</span> or established by <span class="dictionary">administrative order</span> to be paid to or through the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> to the <span class="dictionary">payee</span> and for which the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> has an <span class="dictionary">assignment of rights</span> or has been given an <span class="dictionary">authorization to seek or enforce a support obligation</span> as those terms are defined in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/63.2-100/">63.2-100</a> and <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/63.2-1900/">63.2-1900</a>. Such interest shall accrue, at the legal rate as established by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Legal rate of interest; when legal rate implied" href="/6.2-301/">6.2-301</a>, on all support payments collected by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> and paid to the <span class="dictionary">payee</span> more than thirty days following the end of the month in which the payment was received by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> in nonpublic assistance cases. Interest shall be charged to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> on such payments if the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> has an established case and if the <span class="dictionary">obligor</span> or payor provides identifying information including the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> case number or the <span class="dictionary">noncustodial parent</span>&#x2019;s name and correct social security number.</p></section></text><history>1987, c. 609, &#xA7; 63.1-250.1:1; 2002, c. 747.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
