The B.S. of Illinois Child Support Enforcement Agency

Ok, for those of you who don't know... my ex-husband (Brian Phillips) hasn't paid court-ordered child support for nearly 6 years now. He works at the Purple Martin Inn in Griggsville, IL as a cook but apparently they are paying him cash under the table. How do I know he works there? Many of my co-workers eat there and see him cooking all the time.... his picture was in the paper as their cook, etc. So I contacted the Child Support Enforcement Agency here in wonderful (gag) Illinois and wanted answers. I emailed them FEBRUARY 25, 2010 and they are just now getting back to me today. Good lord!!! Here's what they said... read and gag along with me class. *sigh*

"Our records indicate staff who handle non-compliance issues have been in
contact with Mr. Phillips' employer.  However, no payments have been
received for your case.  Staff sent an Income Withholding Notice (IWN)
certified restricted and the certification was returned signed by the
employer.  Non-compliance staff will determine the appropriate action to
be taken on your case.

Our records indicate your private attorney obtained a body attachment
against Mr. Phillips.  You may wish to contact the sheriff in the county
where he resides regarding the body attachment. 

As criterion is met, the non-custodial parent is automatically submitted
for every enforcement remedy available to us to collect the past due
support.  These include the State and Federal Refund Offset Program,
Financial Institution Data Matches (FIDM), running tape matches with the
Credit Bureau, Department of Employment Security, Internal Revenue
Service, Secretary of State, Social Security Administration, suspension
of Illinois professional licenses and driver's license, placing liens on
real and personal property; collaborating with private collection
agencies; and reporting the debt to credit reporting agencies. 

Until monies are received from our collection remedies, we cannot tell
you if or when monies will be collected through our enforcement tools.

The employer you provided has not provided any wage information to the
Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES).  If Mr. Phillips is
working for cash, enforcement becomes more difficult as there is no
paper trail to follow as there is with wages.

I understand how difficult it is to raise children without the benefit
of child support payments.  We will continue to utilize all available
collection remedies to collect the support owed to you.

You may contact our Child Support Customer Service Call Center at
1-800-447-4278 to obtain a status of the actions being taken on your
case.  When the call center is experiencing a high volume of calls, you
will be directed to call back at a later time.

Thank you.

Customer Service Unit / kga
Division of Child Support Enforcement
Healthcare and Family Services"

Lovely ain't it? We live in a state that doesn't give a rats ass about
custodial parent's rights!!!!!!!! 

To add insult to injury, Pike County Sheriff's Department claims they
are too busy to arrest him since they'd have to transport him back
to Livingston County, plus "ma'am, this is a civil case and we don't
get involved in civil cases, contact your attorney"  WHAT?!?!