O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 19-11-25 (2019)

Availability of information about overdue support to consumer reporting agency; notice to debtor parent; fee

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) In accordance with Section 466(a) of the federal Social Security Act, the department shall make available information regarding the amount of overdue support owed by an absent parent residing in the state to any consumer reporting agency, as defined in Section 603(f) of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, upon the request of such agency.

(b) If the amount of overdue support involved in any case is less than $1,000.00, information regarding such overdue support may be made available in the discretion of the department.

(c) Any information with respect to an absent parent shall be made available only after notice of the proposed action has been sent by the department to such absent parent and such absent parent has been given a reasonable opportunity to contest the accuracy of such information.

(d) The department may collect a fee from the recipient for furnishing such information not to exceed the actual cost thereof.

History

Code 1981, § 19-11-25, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 785, § 8. U.S. Code. Section 466 of the federal Social Secu-

rity Act, referred to in subsection (a), is codified at 42 U.S.C. § 666. Section 603 of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, referred to in subsection (a), is codified at 15 U.S.C. § 1681.