The NCSEA Private Sector Individual of the Year Award is awarded to an individual in the private sector for commitment, dedication, and tireless efforts on behalf of NCSEA. This year’s recipient, Bob Williams was instrumental in challenging NCSEA to develop a proactive set of legislative proposals that would move the child support program forward in a way we have not seen since Welfare Reform in 1996. Ironically, this person was a noted expert in the program in 1996 and remains so today nearly three decades later.
Bob is the Chieff Executive Officer of Veritas HHS, a health and human services operations and consulting firm. In this capacity, Williams provides oversight for Veritas HHS child support operations in Maryland (Baltimore City), North Carolina (five counties), and Tennessee (four judicial districts). He also takes a lead role in Veritas HHS consulting engagements. Williams was formerly founder of Policy Studies Inc. (PSI) and served as its CEO until May 2006.
For 37 years, Williams has actively engaged in developing child support policies in areas such as child support guidelines, voluntary paternity establishment, interstate case processing, review and modification of child support orders, medical support, and TANF distribution. He is a member of the NCSEA Policy and Government Relations Committee. He has written discussion papers entitled Time to Re-Think Medical Support: Impact of the Affordable care Act on Child Support; A Proposal for Modernizing TANF Distribution in the Child Support Program; and Medical Support 2.0 Re-Positioning Medical Support in the Changing Landscape of Health Insurance.
Williams holds M.P.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Urban Affairs and Domestic Policies from Princeton University and a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
