Mandatory Enforcement

  I would never have seen this one coming. Going back one day to May 12th, 2011...yet another document arrived by mail. This time from the DES Division of Child Support. This one was titled Health Care Coverage and Cash Medical Support.
  In essence, DES was required by Federal and State Law to enforce that D provide information on his health care coverage as ordered by the court on April 19th. D knew nothing of this and it was the first time he'd heard about any "health coverage" topic. This was not discussed at all during the hearing.
  The paragraphs as they were written:

  "If you do not give us this information, a National Medical Support Notice will be sent to your current employer. This notice will require your employer to enroll your child/(ren) in the health plan available from your employer.
  If Division of Child Support Enforcement does not receive proof that you are providing medical support within 90 calendar days since your court order was signed, you will be responsible to pay a monthly cash medical support amount of TBD. This amount will be added to your child support obligation and we will begin to enforce and collect the cash medical support."

  More disarming would need to occur. More energy expended. D would need to act on this and communicate with DES. Communication and common sense seemed to both be non existent. The courts had it in writing that his children and Sharon were in Canada and that they lived there. They also had their DOB's on their court orders so there was proof that they were both adults. Anyone living in the USA is very aware that insurance coverage in the USA would not cover them out of state let alone across countries. Most employees cannot afford the premiums of health care benefits. Premiums for a family would cost approximately $600.00/mo on average.
  We could not spend time nor our strength on frivolities such as trying to figure out why this was going on or feeding any negativity related to it.
  I emailed the scanned docs to him with some comments:
 
  "Denis here is the form....and info.....when u call DES let them know as well that this makes no sense in 2 countries and that ur kids are adults and
Canada Ins is free.....not trying to tell u what to do or say but trying to
help so you don't always need to think of everything....I think this is the
OBAMA care stuff as mandatory.....not necessarily mandatory to cover ur kids but mandatory that DES needs to collect the info regarding your status on this issue.....what is so frustrating is that u told the courts that you
were in Canada and not working yet all of this manpower and paperwork keeps coming.....it must be auto generated because it makes no sense....yet again then it must be the gov't!!! HAHAHAHAHA!"

  We had to keep it light many times because we could easily get bogged down with the weight of it all if we allowed ourselves to. Hope you readers have chuckled here and there along the way also.

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