California Updates Electronic Child-Support Payment Requirements

California employers are to electronically remit child-support payments through a national web-based pay site, rather than the State Disbursement Unit website, which will stop processing payments by April 16, 2020, according to a California Child Support Services notice.

Generally, California employers that must electronically remit income taxes and unemployment insurance payments also must electronically make child support payments. Employers also can be required to make electronic payments if they have willfully failed to comply with a support order three times within a 12-month period.

California employers who are registered to make electronic payments on the California State Disbursement Unit ...