Margaret Budine, fondly known as Peg by her coworkers, was originally hired as a Typist for the Delaware County Department of Social Services on July 28, 1986.  Shortly thereafter, she was promoted to Account Clerk Typist.  Within a year she was again promoted to Senior Typist.  During a state–local title review, her position was reclassified and upgraded to Child Support Collection Investigator.  Margaret has worked her entire career at Social Services performing child support functions.

Margaret’s responsibilities are to manage her data base of approximately 1,000 child support collection accounts.  She manages these accounts by posting payments, changing case demographic data as it is modified and responding to client, respondent and employer inquiries.  Margaret also performs intake functions for new accounts applying for collection services.  She assists clients with the process for establishing paternity for children when parentage is either unknown or has not been indicated at the time of birth.  She also assists parents with the process of applying for child support from an absent parent.

Margaret was attracted to this work because of its very nature.  She loves children and knows that life may be a struggle when both parents are not financially participating in the process of raising a child.  She finds the work challenging and never boring.  She takes pride completing a successful case.  Margaret enjoys the company of her coworkers every work day.  She appreciates their humor, sensitivity and dedication to the child support mission.

Margaret is the mother to three children.  Today, she is also the grandparent to four children with 2 living locally and 2 in North Carolina.

Margaret has been an EMT volunteer for the Franklin Emergency Squad and Fire Department for 38 years.  This challenging role has fulfilled Margaret’s outside interests as she takes an active and important role in supporting her community.

Margaret was nominated by her coworkers for Employee of the Month because of her longstanding consistency to child support work.  She brings a balance and determination to the job that makes her an effective staff member.  Over the years, she has assisted Delaware County maintain a quality child support program that annually collects about $6 M while managing the Department’s over 3,000 child support accounts.