I'm sure all of you have noticed that you get charged a fee to pay or receive your child support.  Typically, this is 4% of the amount being collected.  This is supposedly to "defray" the cost paying child support.  It is payed to the court trustee and I believe some of it reaches the Kansas Payment Center.  So if you pay $1000/mo in child support, the "man" receives $40/mo.  In addition to the payor probably getting charged even more to have the amount garnished, he/she also pays half the trusee's fee.

Here's my problem.  Why is this fee charged as a percentage of the child support figure.  That almost screams "I'm out to make a buck."  Let me ask a question - if I hand you a $10 bill or a $100 bill, did it take me any more or less physical effort to hand it to you?  I would hope the answer is "no."  Same with child support.  Just because John pays $1,500/mo doesn't mean it took more effort draft the income withholding order than it would for Bob who only pays $200/mo.  I cannot see why they charge is a percentage.  It should be a flat processing fee.  I've not done the numbers, but I'd like to see exactly how many child support dollars are paid annually in KS.  This should then be multiplied by the 4% to see how much revenue goes to the trustee's office just in child support.  Then I'd like to know how much Megan Campbell receives of that and how many employees she has working arrearage calculations, enforcement, etc. 

I think those who are delinquent in child support take much more of the trustee's effort, so they try to "defray" this cost by collecting more money from those who make a higher wage.  So basically the rich supporting the poor.