- Created by the Social Services Amendments of 1974
- Group of systems operated by OCSE at HHS to help states in locating non-custodial parents, putative fathers and custodial parents to establish paternity and child support obligations as well as enforcement and modification of orders.
- Helps agencies identify over-payments, fraud, and assessing benefits
- Under the Family Support Act of 1988, it was given access to wage and unemployment claims information (INTERNET) to help find absent parents