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Appropriations Subcommittee Structure: History of Changes from 1920 to 2025

Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-18 · Reports · 6,345 words · PDF available

This report details the evolution of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees’ subcommittee structure from the 1920s to the present. In 1920, the House adopted a change in its rules to consolida...

Child Support Services: Program Basics

Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-18 · Reports · 9,278 words · PDF available

The Child Support program was enacted in 1975 as a federal-state program (Title IV-D of the Social Security Act). It was originally referred to as the Child Support Enforcement program and was recentl...

Child Support Services Annual User Fee: In Brief

Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-18 · Reports · 4,720 words · PDF available

Section 454(6)(B)(ii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 654) requires that states impose an annual user fee for child support services provided to families with no connection to the welfare system...

Traditional, Roth, and Rollover Individual Retirement Account (IRA) Ownership in 2022

Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-18 · Reports · 4,019 words · PDF available

Households rely on a variety of sources for income in retirement. These include, for example, payments from Social Security, a federal social insurance program that provides monthly benefits to insure...

The Child Support Services (CSS) Program

Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-18 · Resources · 1,445 words · PDF available

Introduction The child support program was enacted into law on January 4, 1975 (P.L. 93-647). It was originally referred to as the Child Support Enforcement program and was recently renamed by the U.S...

Public Safety Officers’ Benefits (PSOB) and Public Safety Officers’ Educational Assistance (PSOEA) Programs

Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-18 · Reports · 5,707 words · PDF available

The Public Safety Officers’ Benefits (PSOB) program provides cash benefits to federal, state, and local law enforcement officers; firefighters; employees of emergency management agencies; and members ...