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The South Carolina Department of Social Services’ Employer New Hire Reporting Program needs your help? Why? Because, as with every other state in the Union and the federal government too, they are trying to track down parents who don’t pay child support using your new hire employee information.

The Employer New Hire Reporting Program in South Carolina was set up to through the special Child Support Enforcement Division of the Department of Social Services. It was mandated to collect the new hire information from all South Carolina employers by the Section 43-5-598 of the South Carolina Code of Laws.

Think of it this way: the more delinquent parents that the Employer New Hire Reporting Program catches in South Carolina, the less the tax burden is on the states residents and businesses. It is their taxes, and your taxes, that pay for public assistance that children may be getting instead of the child support from their parents.

So a little effort on the part of you and other South Carolina employers, in other words, could be considered to be a long-term investment for you. You report the names, social security numbers, and addresses of your new hires (as well as, optionally, their date of birth, date of hire, and phone numbers), and you could be tracking down delinquent parents and saving millions for the state.

You have this information already on all of your new hires. I’ve been trying to drive this point home to employers of other states when it comes to new hire reporting. Open an employee file in your human resource department, and you should fine the employment application, their referral forms, interview evaluations, employment offers, and other documents that would have this information on it, easily transferable to the state via mail, fax, email, Internet, or magnetic tape.

In South Carolina (SC) there are many responsibilities and issues that are dealt with by the Department of Human Resources. This is the department that is responsible for making sure that everything that is needed by both an employer and employee as far as minimums are concerned is met. This department oversees all levels and aspects employment in our state. They work to achieve workplace harmony and at achieving high working standards for our state.

They work very hard at battling the unemployment percentage and have done this in different ways. They have lowered the unemployment rate from 7.2% to 6.2% since November of 2005. This is a very telling number as it has fallen one whole percent in less than a year. However this is a number that can still use improvement based on the national unemployment average is only 4.8%. The work is being done and more improvements are expected soon in our state. Since June of 2003 more than 101,000 new jobs have been created in our state to help with the unemployment battle and to draw more people into our state. They are also working with job retraining as well as job placement to help people get back to work and off of unemployment. They have done this by improving and creating more job placement stations throughout the state.

This department is also responsible for maintaining and providing you with benefits in regards to worker’s compensation as well as unemployment. They provide all of these benefits to you the employee as well as the employer. They also provide for the enforcement of labor laws for minors as well as adult employees and employers in our state. This department is also responsible for maintaining the safety of your workplace on all aspects. They make sure that all workplaces are safe for working in as well as maintaining those safety standards.