$28M in Child Support Payments Go Untouched in Florida

According to a report from the Orlando Sentinel, the state of Florida is holding onto $28 million in child support payments because it can't figure out which parents should receive the money.

The paper reports that the cache of money has more than doubled since 2007 with more than $5 million of it sitting there for five years or more.

Muffett Robinson, a spokesperson for the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida told the paper that one of the groups that is likely to miss out on the payments the most is the state's homeless population which often doesn't have proper identification or a bank account to receive the funds.

"That is incredibly awful because that money belongs to the children," Orlando lawyer Erwin Dunlop told the Sentinel. "And believe me, based on the cases I've seen over the years, the children really need it."

Although the children of Thomas Frazier didn't live in Florida, it appears that they had just as difficult a time in receiving payments from their father. According to the Associated Press, the 42-year-old man who fathered 14 children with 13 different women owes more than $530,000 in child support payments and according to court records, hasn't made a payment in six years.