Get IL HFS WEB016 2010-2024

The new child support laws in Illinois in 2022 require that the parents purchase or maintain health insurance for the child or children when dealing with a child support matter. This mandate is in effect whenever the parents deal with child support, such as a part of a divorce or a child custody case.

Before Illinois updated the laws, they had a parent pay a set amount of their income depending on the number of children they had. Now child support is based on net income, so there is not a specific limit in the same sense.

Illinois uses a model called "percentage of obligor net income". This model assumes that child rearing costs will be shared between parents and assesses a percentage of the non-residential parent's net income as the support to be paid to the parent or guardian who resides with the child or children.

The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) is responsible for providing healthcare coverage for adults and children who qualify for Medicaid, and for providing Child Support Services to help ensure that Illinois children receive financial support from both parents.

You can find out if your support payment has been received by logging on to your record at the "Payments/Disbursements" page at the Login screen, or by calling Customer Service at 877-225-7077. For security reasons, you will need to have your Social Security Number and PIN available to access your payment information.

This means that child support payments are based on both parents' income and how much more the higher-earning parent makes, but there is no law that caps child support at any specific dollar amount.

The primary concept behind the income shares model for child support is that “the child should receive the same proportion of parental income that he or she would have received if the parents lived together,” ing to the NCSL.