California Reparations Task Force calls for elimination of child support debt for black residents because ‘nation's laws have torn African American families apart.’

California's controversial Reparations Task Force has called on the state legislature to end child support debt for black residents claiming that the nation's laws have hindered their growth and have torn African American families apart.
The task force released their final report last week that laid out a series of calculations that could amount to hundreds of billions of dollars in payment.
The 1,100-page document revealed that the state's black residents represent a larger percentage of those who owe child support debt than their proportion of the state's population.  
The task force alleged that 'discriminatory' laws 'have torn African American families apart,' and that one effect of that is the 'harms' caused by 'the disproportionate amount of African Americans who are burdened with child support debt.'
The report claims that the 10 percent interest that the state charges on back child support has hampered black residents to find employment, maintain a home, and further their education due to the legal consequences of not paying such debt.
The report cited a 2003 California Department of Child Support Services study, which estimated 27 percent of owed child support in the state was unpaid interest.
It also highlighted that those who did owe child support had lower incomes than 'the typical California worker' and that such interest required a larger portion of their income to actually pay the debt,' The New York Post reported.
Some of the recommendations the task force cited included the termination of all interest accrued on back child support. This move, they said, would require only the payment of the principal owed. 
'At a minimum, the proposal recommends that the Legislature eliminate the prospective accrual of interest on child support debt for low-income parents,' the report said.
'The Task Force further recommends that the Legislature amend Family Code section 17560, the 'offers in compromise' provision, to allow for offers in compromise and forgiveness of child support debt based solely on a parent's financial (sic) circumstances and ability to pay,' it added.
The report is a culmination of two years of research done by the task force into what it says is the historical discrimination faced by black Californians and their ancestors in the state.
It also offers a broad account of the ways it accuses the state of wronging descendants of black slaves.
The state legislature will now determine what aspects of the report, including monetary compensation for black residents, it will approve or deny.

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