 In 47 states the percent of payments going to families was 86% or more and in seven states exceeded 95%.Half of "unpaid" child support is owed to the government.Sherri Z. Heller, Ed.D, Commissioner of U.S. Office of Child Support Enforcement stated, "We need to be more aggressive about leveraging older debt owed to the government as an incentive to obtain more reliable payments of current support to families."