Washington State Child Support & TANF?

I was on TANF for a period of 55 months during my daughter's 18 years. I have 3 kids. Only one belonged to my exhusband and he be court ordered to pay support for her only. According to the 1996 TANF reform law, each time I stopped receiving TANF and started again, all that be owed to me in child support belonged to the State of Washington. So in turn, my ex owes the state of washingtonj 34000. And I received a total of 7000. Now here is the question, why does he owe the total amount that I received for me and three kids? Why doesn't he with the sole purpose owe 1/4 of the total amount that I received?
I am fighting the state now because I feel that the child support is justifiably mine. He has already paid in 15000 into child support. That is my 7000 and 8000 to the state. I quality that he has more than paid the state for what I received for our daughter. I feel he should not hold to pay for the other two kids since the courts have said he didn't have to.
TANF other confuses people. You are correct in what you stated, you did assign your support rights over to the state when you received assistance. However, TANF is figured by group and child support by direct. They can only keep as much as they paid out surrounded by benefits. So if you had kids by two different men, they will still owe no more than their court ordered obligation, but where that money go isn't up to them. The state may choose to keep more from one man than the other, based on how payments distribute, but in the finish off, neither the payer nor the payee are being ripped off. He doesn't pay any more than his directive states and the state doesn't keep any more than they paid you in benefits, the merely variable is which payor has more of his money going to the state vs. you. You can't look at it as your daughter's portion, federal guidelines won't support you. It's the total of ALL benefits you received, they don't tie it to each payor. The federal parliament sets these rules, the Social Security Act, Title IV-D, as much as I sympathize with you, you aren't going to win, they have federal law on their side. I know it is a sturdy concept to grasp, but they are entitled to recoup what they paid you, despite who the payor is. So if you have one dad remuneration all the TANF, then the other (who had a kid on your group) will reward none toward TANF. They aren't to be concerned with it, they just pay their ordered amount and the state distributes according to federal guidelines. Hope this help.