The Office of Child Support Enforcement’s NPOWR! Program has
cost taxpayers almost a million dollars, mostly in employee salaries, since
2008. The 90 day program has a failure
rate of over 75% but OCSE still wastes taxpayer’s money in a failed duplicative
program. According to OCSE the NPOWR!
Program is “a partnership with the Department of Workforce Services (DWS) that
offers noncustodial parents employments placement and readiness services”.
In fact the NPOWR! Program is nothing more than a boondoggle and a gross waste of state employee salaries that could be used to fund other needed positions. If a noncustodial parent received unemployment benefits prior to being
“accepted” into the NPOWR! Program, they have already used the exact same DWS
services that the NPOWR! Program utilizes.
The only benefit for the noncustodial parent is that the OCSE defers
punitive options such as driver’s license suspension, for the 90 day period, but
OCSE could do that without the NPOWR! Program if they so desired.
This is another reason Dan McDonald should be fired and perhaps Richard Weiss, the Director of the Department of Finance & Administration, and Tim Leathers, the Deputy Director, should be removed for allowing this terrible waste of taxpayer funds to exist in their agency.
