COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has intercepted around $10 million in purse money in the last five years from gambling parents who are delinquent on child support, the agency announced.

A 2014 law requires casinos to work with the state to identify delinquent parents when winnings exceed $1,200 for slot machines, $5,000 for table games or $600 for high-stakes games.

The Ohio Lottery, which regulates the lottery and racinos, had been required by an earlier law to cross-check against a database for overdue child support on winnings over $600.

“If noncustodial parents are behind on their child support, their winnings from gambling should fulfill their responsibility to their children first,” Kimberly Hall, director of the Department of Job and Family Services, said in a statement. “It is paramount we deliver these funds to the children who deserve it.”

About $9.9 million has already been collected. The remaining roughly $100,000 is in the process of being collected, Job and Family Services spokesman Bret Crow said.

Of the $10 million total that’s been intercepted, much of the money went to child support cases that originated in Northeast Ohio: