title: National Medical Support Notice.  Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, Labor.  Final rule.
abstract: This document contains a final rule that promulgates a National Medical Support Notice to be issued by State agencies as a means of enforcing the health care coverage provisions in a child support order, and to be treated by plan administrators of group health plans as a qualified medical child support order under section 609(a) of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).  Through this regulation, the Department of Labor (the Department) is implementing an amendment to section 609(a) of ERISA, made by section 401 of the Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998 (CSPIA), Pub. L. 105-200.  This rule will affect group health plans, participants in group health plans, noncustodial children of such participants, and State agencies that administer child support enforcement programs.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002654:Child Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D019461:Employee Retirement Income Security Act / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States