Families Will Lose Billions of Dollars Under Ways and Means Proposal According to the Center for Law and Social Policy, the Committee on Ways and Means has proposed deep cuts to the federal funding for child support services, which would severely reduce states' ability to collect child support for low- and moderate-income families. This policy brief outlines the proposed changes, and uses Congressional Budget Office projections to show how much funding each state stands to lose and how much child support will go uncollected if the proposed cuts are enacted.