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If you are applying for welfare or are receiving welfare, you may be required to sign a form that allows the ministry administering social assistance to take whatever steps are required get an order for spousal support on your behalf and, sometimes, keep the spousal support it collects. This is called ''assigning'' your spousal support rights to the ministry. The point of this is to allow the provincial government to recapture some of the money it spends on social assistance from someone else who might have a legal responsibility to support you. | If you are applying for welfare or are receiving welfare, you may be required to sign a form that allows the ministry administering social assistance to take whatever steps are required get an order for spousal support on your behalf and, sometimes, keep the spousal support it collects. This is called ''assigning'' your spousal support rights to the ministry. The point of this is to allow the provincial government to recapture some of the money it spends on social assistance from someone else who might have a legal responsibility to support you. | ||
The collection of spousal support payments for people on social assistance is run by the [http:// | The collection of spousal support payments for people on social assistance is run by the [http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/policies-for-government/bcea-policy-and-procedure-manual/general-supplements-and-programs/family-maintenance-services Family Maintenance Program] (FMP). (This is a completely different organization than the program which enforces child support payments between spouses, the [http://www.fmep.gov.bc.ca Family Maintenance Enforcement Program].) FMP has the authority to begin court proceedings for spousal support and can apply for new orders for spousal support, or apply to change old orders for spousal support, and it will do this as it sees fit without much involvement on the part of the recipient at all. | ||
===FMP and people entitled to receive support=== | ===FMP and people entitled to receive support=== | ||