Utah Code Title 26B. Utah Health and Human Services Codes § 26B-9-104. Duties of the Office of Recovery Services

(a) except as provided in Subsection (2), to provide child support services if:

(b) for the purpose of collecting child support, to carry out the obligations of the department contained in:

(c) to collect money due the department which could act to offset expenditures by the state;

(d) to cooperate with the federal government in programs designed to recover health and social service funds;

(e) to collect civil or criminal assessments, fines, fees, amounts awarded as restitution, and reimbursable expenses owed to the state or any of its political subdivisions, if the office has contracted to provide collection services;

(f) to implement income withholding for collection of child support in accordance with Part 3, Income Withholding in IV-D Cases;

(g) to enter into agreements with financial institutions doing business in the state to develop and operate, in coordination with such financial institutions, a data match system in the manner provided for in Section 26B-9-208;

(h) to establish and maintain the state case registry in the manner required by the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 654a, which shall include a record in each case of:

(i) to contract with the Department of Workforce Services to establish and maintain the new hire registry created under Section 35A-7-103;

(j) to determine whether an individual who has applied for or is receiving cash assistance or Medicaid is cooperating in good faith with the office as required by Section 26B-9-213;

(k) to finance any costs incurred from collections, fees, General Fund appropriation, contracts, and federal financial participation; and

(l) to provide notice to a noncustodial parent in accordance with Section 26B-9-207 of the opportunity to contest the accuracy of allegations by a custodial parent of nonpayment of past-due child support, prior to taking action against a noncustodial parent to collect the alleged past-due support.

(a) in the custody of the Division of Child and Family Services; and

(b) lives in the home of a custodial parent of the child for more than seven consecutive days, regardless of whether: