Federal dollars are paying to keep families apart. Tell Congress to stop it.
Two programs in the Social Security Act — Title IV-D and Title IV-E — send states roughly $14 billion a year in open-ended federal 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 — a clean repeal. Ending the open-ended federal reimbursement that rewards litigation, enforcement caseloads, and out-of-home placements shuts off the engine at its source.
2. Clean Break Divorce
The Clean Break model ends the war at dissolution: marital assets split fairly, shared parenting as the default, and — for an ex-spouse without a job — a short, limited courtesy maintenance to get back on their feet. No open-ended child support, no perpetual court supervision, no return trips to the courthouse.
3. Accountability & due process
End categorical immunity for family court judges, evaluators, and agency workers. When the people who run this system break the law and harm families, they should answer for it like anyone else.
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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Was your family harmed by a false report or bill?
Some lies in family court and DCS cases are federal fraud. See what counts and report it in about 10 minutes.
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Was your family harmed by a false report or bill?
Follow the money. Some lies in family court and DCS cases are federal fraud, and you can report them in about 10 minutes.
Lying in court is wrong, but by itself it's perjury, a state matter. It becomes federal fraud when the lie was used to get federal money. That kind of fraud can be reported to the Justice Department's new fraud program.
Where the federal money is
- Foster care (Title IV-E): states get federal money only if a judge finds removal was necessary and "reasonable efforts" were made. Rubber-stamped or false findings, billing for visits or services that never happened, or keeping kids in care to keep the money.
- Child support (Title IV-D): other debts relabeled as "child support," or orders built on fake income or fake arrears.
- Medicaid for foster kids: billing for therapy, evaluations or treatment a child never got.
- Social Security: DCS, an agency or a parent acting as a child's payee and keeping the child's SSI or SSDI money.
What counts, and what doesn't
Does your case fit?
- What exactly was the lie?
- Did federal money get paid because of it?
- Who got the money?
- Do you have papers that prove it? A court order, invoice, receipt, canceled check or support ledger.
If you can answer all four, report it below.
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Report at America.gov/fraud →Tips with original information that lead to criminal charges may qualify for a $10,000–$30,000 award. Program rules
- Report only what you know firsthand and can back up with documents.
- Keep it short and factual: what the record says, what actually happened, and what you want them to check.
- Use the button above or type the address yourself. Don't click links from emails or posts; scammers copy the site.
- Save your reference number and the copy it gives you.
- Don't post the details publicly first. It can cost you a False Claims Act case, which pays 15–30% but needs a lawyer.