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This rulemaking would provide States the flexibility to incorporate in their State child support guidelines two optional exceptions to the prohibition against treating incarceration as voluntary unemployment. Under the proposal, States would have the option to exclude cases: 1) Where the individual is incarcerated due to intentional nonpayment of child support in accordance with guidelines established by the state under 303.6(c)(4); and/or 2) incarceration for any offense of which the individual’s dependent child or the child support recipient was a victim.  The State would be able to apply such exception to the individual’s other child support cases.