Federal dollars are paying to keep families apart. Tell your senators to stop it.
Two programs in the Social Security Act — Title IV-D and Title IV-E — send states roughly $16 billion a year in open-ended reimbursements tied to child support caseloads and out-of-home placements. The more separation, the more federal money. We're asking Congress to repeal both.
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What we're asking Congress to do
The federal government cannot audit its way out of a funding structure that pays states to break families apart. The CAPS Movement asks Congress to end the perverse incentive at its source — and to make families whole. Our platform stands on four pillars:
1. Repeal Title IV-D and IV-E
Strike both programs from the Social Security Act on a defined timeline. Replace per-case, per-removal, per-collection reimbursement with fixed, capped block grants for verified family preservation and reunification only.
2. Clean Break Divorce
Congress should recommend that states adopt a Clean Break model: property and parenting resolved on equal terms at dissolution, without forcing fit, protective parents into open-ended court supervision and perpetual modification battles.
3. Accountability & due process
Narrow categorical immunity for family court actors and strengthen whistleblower and False Claims Act protections for people who report fraudulent or inflated IV-D/IV-E claims.
4. Family Restoration & Reimbursement Act
Create a federal fund to compensate families with documented financial losses caused by unjustified or excessive family-court litigation and related government actions — restoring what the system took.
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