Skip to content
CASE
← The Issue Encyclopedia

Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline F · Financial

Child Support Debt / Arrearage

What the decided record shows for this issue, computed from public DOHA hearing-level decisions. Descriptive history, not a prediction.

Does child support debt / arrearage affect a security clearance?

Child Support Debt / Arrearage is an issue decided under Guideline F, Financial. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 701 hearing-level cases, and 23% of the 700 decided ended with access granted (164 granted, 536 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 700 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

More questions people ask the record

Decided cases

701

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

23%

164 granted · 536 denied or revoked

Official mitigating conditions cited

The formal mitigating conditions the case profiles identified on this issue, in cases that were granted and in cases that were denied. Each is shown with its paragraph number and a plain name. Read what each condition says.

  • ¶ 20(b) · Conditions largely beyond the person's control, met responsibly

    In granted cases
    69
    In denied cases
    24

  • ¶ 20(d) · A good-faith effort to repay or otherwise resolve the debts

    In granted cases
    67
    In denied cases
    44

  • ¶ 20(c) · Counseling received, with clear signs the problem is being resolved

    In granted cases
    42
    In denied cases
    13

  • ¶ 20(a) · So long ago, or so infrequent, that it is unlikely to recur

    In granted cases
    23
    In denied cases
    3

  • ¶ 20(e) · A reasonable and documented basis to dispute the debt

    In granted cases
    6
    In denied cases
    3

  • ¶ 20(g) · An arrangement made with the tax authority, and kept

    In granted cases
    4
    In denied cases
    7

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 23-02328Granted2024

    The applicant in this case was a 38-year-old employee of a Department of Defense (DOD) contractor seeking a security clearance. The adjudicative guidelines at issue were under Guideline F, Financial C…

  • ISCR Case No. 22-02084Granted2023

    The applicant in this case submitted a Questionnaire for National Security Positions on March 22, 2022, seeking a security clearance. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) on J…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-01294Denied2026

    The applicant's security clearance was denied due to unresolved financial issues, including failure to file tax returns and significant debts. While personal conduct allegations were refuted, the fina…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-01361Denied2026

    The applicant's security clearance was denied due to significant financial issues, including over $126,000 in delinquent debts. Despite admitting to these debts and providing some mitigation statement…

See all 701 decisions on this issue

Related issues under Guideline F

How these numbers are measured

Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.

Reading the statistics

  • Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
  • Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
  • † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
  • Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
  • Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.

Where to go from here

Get help with my case

Send us your question, or the Statement of Reasons you received. No charge, and a CASE analyst reads it. Usually five to ten business days.

Ask a question →

I do this for clients

Rank every decision by how closely it matches a matter, see how the assigned judge has ruled, and keep it together with cited exports.

For attorneys and firms →

Decided public cases: descriptive, never a prediction.