For 90 Arkansas families, waiting a...

For 90 Arkansas families, waiting a week or more for a monthly child support check to arrive is a worry of the past. They now receive a direct payment within 72 hours of the deduction transaction, thanks to a just discovered child support software solution.

Little asylum Ark., has become the first city in the state to use the Electronic Payment Interchange and conversion order (EPIc) to process monthly child support payments subtracted from employee paychecks.

The city withholds child support payments from the payroll accounts of 90 of its employee — an involved proces that used to take a week still is now completed in les than four days.

Using the software, payments are electronically transmitted from the city's payroll account to its bank and then to the state Office of Child Support Enforcement's bank.

The child support agency then direct-deposits the payments into the personal bank account