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Audit finds deadbeats allowed to keep lottery money

Published 10/18/08

An audit of Maryland's child support enforcement agency shows that hundreds of lottery winners were allowed to keep their winnings despite overdue child support payments.

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The audit issued Thursday by the Department of Legislative Services showed the agency did not report more than 600 deadbeat parents to the Maryland Lottery, which would have diverted their winnings into payments. It also found that the agency stopped seizing funds from delinquent parents' bank accounts and issued support checks to dead people.

Maryland's chief auditor, Bruce Meyers, says a sampling of 11 parents owing $244,000 in child support...

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