Information For Financial Institutions

Nearly one half of all children receive minimal or no support from their noncustodial parent. This is true even with the wide range of child support enforcement remedies available. There is a need to continue to expand the availability of additional enforcement tools. One such tool is Financial Institution Data Match (FIDM). The purpose of FIDM is to find accounts of parents who are delinquent in paying their child support obligation.

Financial Institution Data Match (FIDM)
In 1996, as part of a comprehensive welfare reform package, Congress enacted Public Law 104-193, The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). One portion of this legislation required each state to enter into agreements with all financial institutions to conducting business in their state to conduct a quarterly match between the financial institutions' accounts with the state's listing of delinquent child support obligors. Go to the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement website to find out more about the regulation and how to comply if you are a Multi-State Financial Insitution. The data specifications for electronic matching can be found there as well

FIDM for Nebraska Financial Institutions
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-3328 to 43-3339 (Reissue 1998) authorizes the development and operation of this data match program in Nebraska and requires all Nebraska financial institutions to participate. If you have not yet signed an agreeement with the State of Nebraska, or have any questions about FIDM, please call 402/479-5555. 

A brief overview of the Nebraska process is that on a quarterly basis, Nebraska financial institutions receive a file containing the names and social security numbers of approximately 40,000 people that are delinquent in their child support obligations. The financial institutions then conduct a match against their own files and return the matched information to the state.

Nebraska has joined the FIDM Allliance which has contracted with Tier Technologies to administer the data matches with financial institutions.  At their website, click on "Information for Financial Institutions".  At the end of the section you can click again to find information about specific states, including Nebraska.  You can also do your own testing via a file validation harness. It is located under the sign-up information.   If you have technical questions about the transfer of data, please call them at their toll-free hotline 1-877-965-3436.

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For more information, contact:
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
Child Support Enforcement
P.O. Box 94728
Lincoln, NE 68509-4728
Phone: (402) 441-8715, 1-877-631-9973 (toll-free)

Child Support Page