HHS Gives DOGE Access To Child Support Database

The Washington Post reports:

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted associates of the U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive child support database with troves of income data, overriding the objections of career employees, according to four people familiar with the matter.

The government database — created to help enforce child support payments and overseen by the Administration for Children and Families, or ACF — contains substantial amounts of personal income data linked to nearly all U.S. workers.

DOGE has defended its efforts to penetrate sensitive government systems as necessary to identify and cut government fraud and waste, but these requests have sparked alarm among civil servants who say they risk breaking federal law and compromising important safeguards.

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