the STATE of INDIANA and child support

this rant is aimed at the STATE of INDIANA, not my x -- he actually responsibly pays his support -- and he has the receipts to prove it -- as he nicely smiles and tells me it's my problem not his that i don't have the support payment

my x gets paid on the first of the month, so i used to get support (when he was doing it himself on the first of the month), if the first was a holiday or Saturday he would pay me on the day before - when he got paid, if it was a Sunday i would get support on the Monday or next business day................................. of course he simply told the payroll department for the company he works at to put the money in my account and he wouldn't have to deal with it.........and they handled it -- it's a simple computer program....

.............well.....................in steps the STATE....................'we need to keep track of the support for your protection and his too'........................... so now the support is deducted automatically from his check and sent by the payroll department to the state who in turn is supposed to give it to me................

...............so i no longer have a day of the month when i know the money will be there, the 5 th maybe or the 13th of the month (the mortgage is due the 5th the electric the 8th -- see the problem)

i used to have all my bills auto-debited (ACH'd) so that I wouldn't have to worry about them getting paid -- no late fees, nothing forgotten ----- that is no longer possible due to the incompetence of the STATE, -- their excuse is 'it's him or his company's payroll department, of course it's not our computer program or process'

which has led to late fees, bounce/overdraft fees, and the fact that i will be changing all bills back to being mailed in -- you know write a check, stick it in an envelope with a stamp and hope it doesn't get lost in the mail -- how reliable is USPS (ok they are actually fairly reliable -- i used to work there, and have family working there :)

right now it's the 7th and no word or idea on when the support will get here -- and the state has no record of it being paid and yet my x has a receipt that it's been taken from his paycheck on the 1st of APRIL 2009 - no joke there

the INDIANA child support hot line -- is useless, and is a full waste of my taxpayer money and needs to be shut down -- they cannot look at the system and say
--well he hasn't paid,
--or the companies payroll messed up,
--or our bank messed up,
--or the federal bank system (ACH) messed up
--or well the people who handle sending out support payments just haven't gotten to yours yet -------------this last one is what i firmly believe is going on (even though it could be handled by a computer program) -- the state is manually processing each and every support payment that it receives -- and after having worked at a bank handling loan payments I KNOW this doesn't have to work this way (yes I've had a few jobs most of them very interesting)

frustrating, infuriating, maddening, and there is nothing i can do about it@#$^@$^#%&#%^#%^

except for sending an e-mail to the Governor -- which i did when i found out it would take the STATE up to 8 weeks to handle the first payment -- that's two months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- that's inane@!@! NO ONE should have to wait that long, especially if the STATE has all the information of where the payment is coming from where it is to go to and how much it should be (they had his paperwork, the courts filed it's paper work, i filed my deposit information before hand even though i found out by accident that i had too, luckily)

and by the way the Governor's office did take my e-mail serious and handled it for me -- thank you!

so where is this months support? who knows. And when will it get here -- who knows

but i do know one thing: IT IS SITTING IN A BANK ACCOUNT EARNING INTEREST FOR SOMEONE -- THE STATE? THE FED (ACH), THE COMPANY?, THE BANK (HIS COMPANIES OR THE STATES BANK), ------- but it is not here where it should be supporting the children who do not need to know that they are just a kog in the system

i reassure my children on a regular basis when they hear stories about support divorce etc...., that those stories are not about their father -- their father is responsible -- and silently remind myself what i think of him (can you wash your mind out with soap - lol)

ok my rant is over