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a) The first fifty dollars ($50) of any amount of child support collected in a month in payment of the required support obligation for that month shall be paid to a recipient of aid under

Article 2 (commencing with

Section 11250) of

Chapter of Part of Division of the Welfare and Institutions Code, except recipients of foster care payments under

Article 5 (commencing with

Section 11400) of

Chapter of Part of Division of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall not be considered income or resources of the recipient family, and shall not be deducted from the amount of aid to which the family would otherwise be eligible. The local child support agency in each county shall ensure that payments are made to recipients as required by this section. (

b) This

section shall become inoperative on January 1, 2022, or when the State Department of Social Services and the Department of Child Support Services notify the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare System and the Child Support Enforcement System can perform the necessary automation to implement this section, as amended by the act that added this subdivision, whichever date is later, and as of that date, or, if this

section becomes inoperative on a date other than January 1, 2022, on January of the following year, is repealed. (

c) The State Department of Social Services shall issue an all-county letter or similar instruction no later than September 1, 2020, to facilitate automation changes necessary to implement this

section and

Section 17504, as added by

Section of the act that added this subdivision.