Section 144-351-27-7 - PAYMENT AND RECOVERY OF COSTS IN INTERGOVERNMENTAL IV-D CASESA. As a responding IV-D agency, the Department must pay the costs it incurs in processing intergovernmental IV-D cases, including the costs of genetic testing. If paternity is established, the Department, at its election, may seek a judgment for the costs of testing from the alleged father who denied paternity.B. The Department may recover its costs of providing services in intergovernmental non-IV-A cases in accordance with 45 C.F.R. § 302.33(d), except that the Department may not recover costs from an FRC or from a foreign obligee in that FRC, when providing services under sections 454(32) and 459A of the Social Security Act.10- 144 C.M.R. ch. 351, § 27-7