Child support: interest.

Existing law provides that in any action to enforce child support obligations, interest does not accrue on an obligation for current child, spousal, family, or medical support due in a given month until the first day of the following month. The California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act (CalWORKs) provides funding to certain families for various social services. Existing law requires a recipient of funding under CalWORKs to assign to the county any rights to support from any other person the recipient may have on his or her own behalf or on behalf of any other family member for whom the recipient is receiving aid, as specified. Existing law provides that an assignment of support rights to the county constitutes an assignment to the state. This bill would additionally provide that no interest would accrue on arrears that are a result of aid granted under CalWORKs and that have been assigned to the state, as specified, in a given month in which the obligor has paid, in full, the current month's court-ordered payments of current support and arrears. The bill would require the Department of Child Support Services to implement that provision by letters or similar instructions, as specified. The bill would become operative on January 1, 2011.