I am all for repaying any cash aid or government assistance, but only children of  single welfare moms (parents) are forced to repay it. Their child support payments are garnished. 

A two parent family who lives as a household on public aid is not expected to repay public assistance. In fact, there is no way for them to repay it if they wanted to.  A two parent family who lives separately while one parent and the child(ren) receive public assistance will have to repay the entire assistance.

My daughter just turned 18 years old and is two weeks from graduating High School. For the past 12 years I have been her sole support except for $240 a month; a partial child support payment. There is a $10,000 balance on the child support case and my daughter and I will never see a dime of it. I was on cash aid for about 5 years and completed college against the advice of my DPSS social workers. For the last 12 years I have not been on cash aid but the County of Los Angeles is still collecting Child Support to pay for five (5) years of cash aid.( I actually work in the welfare system now) The County of Los Angeles has received over half of my child support order for 17 years. This $10,000 is past due child support never paid to me.
A two parent family who lives as a household on public aid is not expected to repay public assistance.

Why do we ask some parents to repay cash aid and not demand that all parents pay this back – or let none of them pay it?

Is it double dipping to take tax payments out of paychecks and have the taxes go to social welfare programs and additionally garnish money to pay for the social welfare your child is using?

And, who monitors these accounts? The California Child Support system has been adding on 10% for years and I think the outstanding debt on the account is more than any cash aid award my family received.

I was labeled a Welfare Mom, he was labeled a Dead Beat and the state of California and Los Angeles County are making a profit.