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Quick Tips
The fastest method for payments to get posted to your account is to mail your payment to Ohio Child Support Payment Central (OCSPC).
Information on payments posted into SETS today (statewide computer system) will not be available to anyone until the next business day. This includes our Call Center and the SETS automated payment line.
If you are making your first child support payment on a new order, it may take up to three weeks for your first payment to be posted.
You can access your payment information by phone or you can click on to the link below to access your information through the Web.
Your Child Support Payment Information is Now Available Online!
Have payment questions?
Please click on the Bold Chat button above from 9:30am to 11:00am or 2:00pm to 3:30pm Monday thru Friday and you can electronically "speak" to a CSEA representative who will be happy to answer your questions.
Child Support Customers Have Service Options
To get payment information by telephone call the 24 Hour Payment Information Line. By calling this number, you will learn the last date a payment was received: 800-860-2555 or TDD customers can call: 866-500-3784.
If You Pay Child Support
Child Support Cash Payments
For Cuyahoga County cases only*:
Cash payments are not the fastest method to get your payment posted in the computer system, the fasted method is through the United States Postal Service regular mail, send to Ohio Child Support Payment Central.
Clients with cases in Cuyahoga County can make cash payments at this location only.
Cuyahoga County Treasurer's Office
County Administration Building
1st Floor - Cashiers
1219 Ontario Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
Clear identifying information should accompany payments including:
- SETS Case Number
- Order Number
- Social Security Number
- Obligor Name
* If your Child Support / Spousal Support order’s jurisdiction is based in another County in Ohio and you attempt to make a cash payment at the Cuyahoga County Treasurer’s Office, your payment may be returned to you. If your payment is processed, it may take up to two weeks for you to be credited with the payment.
Ohio Child Support Payment Central (CSPC)
As part of a federal legislative mandate, employers and obligors who send checks or money orders for child support payments must use a central location to remit payments:
Employers Mail Payments To:
OHIO CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENT CENTRAL
PO BOX 182394
COLUMBUS, OH 43218-2394
Individual Obligors Mail Payments To:
OHIO CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENT CENTRAL
PO BOX 182372
COLUMBUS, OH 43218-2372
Summary billing statements or coupons are mailed to you each month with instructions for how/when to use. For future payments, use these statement/coupons. They contain the most current information available in the computer system necessary to ensure accurate posting at CSPC.
You must provide all four of the following data elements for each intended payment to a case/order:
- Obligor Name - The non-custodial or absent parent's full last name and first name. Please note any differences in spelling and call the county at 216-443-5100 to resolve.
- Sets Case Number - The non-custodial or absent parent's case identification in the SETS computer system. This 10-digit number was assigned to the employee's support case during conversion to SETS. This number always begins with a "7" (e.g. 7000456789). Please call the county that sent you the original withholding notice to identify the SETS case number.
- Order Number - The non-custodial or absent parent's judicial or administrative order number.
- Social Security Number - The non-custodial parent or absent parent's nine-digit social security number.
Making Payments On-Line
Pay by Checking Account Debit
Payment by checking/savings account debit can be made at www.ExpertPay.com. Aside from a onetime $2.50 registration fee, there is no charge for payments sent to Ohio Child Support Payment Central (CSPC); however, you may pay a nominal fee for payments remitted to other states. Please allow seven (7) days for the payment to be received by Ohio CSPC. The ExpertPay web site has additional details about fees and the general use of the site.
Pay by Credit Card
Payment using your credit card can be made at www.e-ChildsPay.com. Currently, e-ChildsPay.com only accepts MasterCard, Visa and Discover. Note: The processor charges a fee of $11.75 for all payments made on this site. Please allow seven (7) days for the payment to be received by Ohio CSPC. The e.childsPay web site has complete details about fees and the general use of the site.
Attention Employers!
Get all the answers regarding your child support wage withholding questions right here:
http://jfs.ohio.gov/Ocs/employers/CSPC_Overview.stm#Employers
If You Receive Child Support
Ohio Child Support Payment Central Direct Deposit
If you receive child support or spousal support (alimony) and hate waiting in line to cash your support check; or if you're out of town and your check arrives, are you worried that it'll be safe until you get home? Then think about DIRECT DEPOSIT. Have your check deposited directly in the financial institution account you indicate. All you have to do is enroll.
Get your payments directly and safely by signing up for DIRECT DEPOSIT.
DIRECT DEPOSIT is safe and confidential:
- Payments don't get lost
- Your money goes directly to your account
- Fewer people handle your payment
It's convenient and saves you time: