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2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 94 - Federal Donated Commodities.

§ 94.  Federal donated commodities. 1.  (a)  Until his social services
district  has  been  included  in the food stamp distribution program or
programs under section ninety-five, each commissioner of social services
is authorized and  required,  in  accordance  with  regulations  of  the
department,  to  assist  needy  families  and  individuals of his social
services district to obtain federal donated commodities for  their  use,
by  certifying, when such is the case, that they are eligible to receive
such commodities, and  by  distributing  such  commodities  to  eligible
families  and individuals.  However, only those who are receiving or are
eligible for public assistance or care and such others as may qualify in
accordance with federal requirements and standards  promulgated  by  the
department shall be certified as eligible to receive such commodities.
(b)   Each commissioner of social services shall develop and submit to
the department  for  its  approval  a  plan  describing  his  district's
operations  under this section, which plan shall accord with federal and
state requirements.
2.  Federal donated commodities shall not be deemed or construed to be
public assistance and care  or  a  substitute,  in  whole  or  in  part,
therefor;  and  the receipt of such commodities by eligible families and
individuals shall not subject them, their legally responsible relatives,
their property or their estates to any demand,  claim  or  liability  on
account thereof.
3.  A person's need or eligibility for public assistance or care shall
not be affected by his receipt of federal donated commodities.
4.    Any inconsistent provisions of law notwithstanding, expenditures
made  by  social  services  districts  for  the  purpose  of  certifying
eligibility  of  needy  families  and  individuals  for  federal donated
commodities and for distributing  such  commodities  to  them  shall  be
deemed  to  be  expenditures for the administration of public assistance
and care  and  shall  be  subject  to  reimbursement  by  the  state  in
accordance with the provisions of section one hundred fifty-three to the
extent of one hundred percentum thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 96 - Use of Subprofessional Staff.

§  96.    Use of subprofessional staff.  Any inconsistent provision of
  law, general, special or local notwithstanding, a local social  services
  district  shall  provide  for  the  training  and use of subprofessional
  staff,  with  particular  emphasis  on  the  use  of  public  assistance
  recipients in accordance with state and federal requirements.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 101 - Liability of Relatives to Support.

§  101.    Liability  of relatives to support. 1.  Except as otherwise
  provided by  law,  the  spouse  or  parent  of  a  recipient  of  public
  assistance  or  care  or  of  a  person liable to become in need thereof
  shall, if of sufficient ability, be responsible for the support of  such
  person, provided that a parent shall be responsible only for the support
  of  a  child  under  the age of twenty-one years.  Step-parents shall in
  like manner be responsible for the support of  step-children  under  the
  age  of twenty-one years. Nothing herein shall impose any liability upon
  a person to support the adopted child of his or her spouse if such child
  was adopted after the adopting spouse is living separate and apart  from
  the  non-adopting  spouse  pursuant to a legally recognizable separation
  agreement or decree under the domestic relations law.    Such  liability
  shall  not  be  imposed  for  so long as the spouses remain separate and
  apart after the adoption.
2.  The liability imposed by this section shall be for the benefit  of
  the  public  welfare  district  concerned  or  any  legally incorporated
  non-profit institution which receives  payments  from  any  governmental
  agency  for  the  care of medically indigent persons, and such liability
  may be enforced by appropriate proceedings and actions  in  a  court  of
  competent  jurisdiction.  Such proceedings and actions may be brought by
  such an institution in any court wherein a similar proceeding or  action
  could be brought by a public welfare official.
3. The expiration of any period of time for the payment of maintenance
  by a court in a matrimonial action shall not be a bar to the enforcement
  of the liability imposed by this section.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 101-A - Proceedings to Compel Support by Persons in Need Thereof.

§ 101-a.  Proceedings to compel support by persons in need thereof.  A
  recipient  of  public assistance or care or a person liable to become in
  need thereof may bring proceedings in a court of competent  jurisdiction
  against  any  person  responsible  for his or her support as provided in
  section one hundred one of this chapter to compel  any  such  person  so
  responsible to provide for or contribute to such support.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 102 - Powers of Public Welfare Officials to Bring and Defend Suits.

§  102.  Powers of public welfare officials to bring and defend suits.
  A public welfare official responsible, by or pursuant to  any  provision
  of this chapter, for the administration of the public assistance or care
  granted  or  applied for is empowered to bring proceedings in a court of
  competent jurisdiction
1.  to compel any person liable by law for support  to  contribute  to
  the  support of any person cared for at public expense, or person liable
  to become so dependent.  A bond may be required of  such  person  liable
  for support to indemnify the public welfare district against the cost of
  the support of such person;
2.    to  recover  penalties,  forfeitures  and  prosecute  any bonds,
  undertakings and recognizances;
3.  and defend in any court all matters relating  to  the  support  of
  persons at public expense.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 103 - Seizure of Property of Persons Liable for Support.

§  103.    Seizure  of  property  of persons liable for support.   The
  responsible  public  welfare  official  may  apply  to  a  court  having
  jurisdiction  in  actions  involving  an  amount  equal  to the value of
  property to be seized for a warrant to seize the real or personal estate
  of a person who absents himself, leaving any one for whose support he is
  liable dependent upon public support or liable to become  so  dependent.
  If  such  a warrant be issued, the public welfare official may seize the
  property and apply the proceeds as directed by the court.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 104 - Recovery From a Person Discovered to Have Property.

§ 104. Recovery from a person discovered to have property. 1. A public
  welfare  official  may  bring  action  or  proceeding  against  a person
  discovered to have real or personal property, or against the  estate  or
  the executors, administrators and successors in interest of a person who
  dies  leaving  real or personal property, if such person, or any one for
  whose support he is or was liable, received assistance and  care  during
  the  preceding  ten  years,  and  shall be entitled to recover up to the
  value of such property the cost of such assistance or care.  Any  public
  assistance  or  care received by such person shall constitute an implied
  contract. No claim of a public welfare official against  the  estate  or
  the executors, administrators and successors in interest of a person who
  dies  leaving real or personal property, shall be barred or defeated, in
  whole or in part, by any lack of sufficiency of ability on the  part  of
  such person during the period assistance and care were received.
Nor  shall the claim asserted by a public welfare official against any
  person under this section be impaired, impeded, barred or  defeated,  in
  whole or in part, on the grounds that another person or persons may also
  have been liable to contribute.
In  all  claims of the public welfare official made under this section
  the public welfare official shall be deemed a preferred creditor.
2. No right of action shall accrue against a person  under  twenty-one
  years  of  age by reason of the assistance or care granted to him unless
  at the time it was  granted  the  person  was  possessed  of  money  and
  property  in  excess of his reasonable requirements, taking into account
  his  maintenance,  education,  medical  care  and  any   other   factors
  applicable to his condition.
3.  To  the  extent described in section 7-1.12 of the estates, powers
  and trusts law, the trustee of a supplemental needs trust which conforms
  to the provisions of such section 7-1.12  shall  not  be  deemed  to  be
  holding assets for the benefit of a beneficiary who may otherwise be the
  subject  of  a  claim  under  this  section and no action may be brought
  against either  the  trust  or  the  trustee  to  recover  the  cost  of
  assistance  or care provided to such person, or anyone for whose support
  such person is or was liable.
4. Any inconsistent provision of this chapter  or  of  any  other  law
  notwithstanding,  a  social  services  official may not assert any claim
  under any provision of  this  chapter  to  recover  payments  of  public
  assistance   if   such   payments   were  reimbursed  by  child  support
  collections.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 104-A - Transfer of Property for the Purpose of Qualifying for Assistance; Presumption.

§  104-a.    Transfer  of  property  for the purpose of qualifying for
  assistance; presumption.  For the purposes of  the  provisions  of  this
  chapter disqualifying a person from eligibility for a category of public
  assistance  or  care  by reason of his voluntary transfer of property, a
  transfer of property made within one year from the date of the  person's
  application  for such assistance shall be presumed to have been made for
  the purpose of qualifying for such assistance.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 105 - Claim on Insurance.

§  105.    Claim  on insurance.   If a person, who has received public
  assistance or care, shall die leaving insurance, and the estate  of  the
  assured  is named as beneficiary, or no beneficiary is named, the social
  services official shall be entitled to a preferred claim to be paid  out
  of such insurance to the amount of the cost of such assistance and care,
  and  for  funeral  expenses not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars.  If
  the insured leaves a surviving spouse  or  children  under  the  age  of
  twenty-one  years  who are, or are liable to become, public charges, the
  social services official may, in his discretion, waive his claim to such
  insurance or any part thereof to which he would otherwise be entitled.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 106-A - Exemption From Payment of Fees for Instruments Affecting Real or Personal Property; Exemption of Mortgages From Mortgage Recording Tax.

§  106-a.    Exemption  from payment of fees for instruments affecting
  real  or  personal  property;  exemption  of  mortgages  from   mortgage
  recording  tax.    Any  inconsistent provision of law notwithstanding, a
  social services official shall not be required to pay  any  fee  to  any
  clerk,   register   or   other  public  officer  for  entering,  filing,
  registering or recording  any  instrument  affecting  real  or  personal
  property  or  to  the  surrogate  court when such official in taking any
  proceeding with respect to the estate of a person who was a recipient of
  benefits from social services pertaining to the exercise by  the  social
  services  official of any of the powers conferred or duties imposed upon
  him by any of the  provisions  of  this  chapter.    Mortgages  on  real
  property taken by social services officials pursuant to this chapter for
  assistance  and  care  of persons at public expense shall be exempt from
  the mortgage recording taxes imposed by article eleven of the  tax  law.
  The  exemption  from mortgage recording taxes herein provided shall also
  apply to all mortgages heretofore taken by social services officials and
  recorded without payment of mortgage taxes, retroactively to the date of
  recording of such mortgages.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 106-B - Adjustment for Incorrect Payments.

§   106-b.  Adjustment  for  incorrect  payments.    Any  inconsistent
  provision of law notwithstanding, a social services official  shall,  in
  accordance  with  the  regulations of the department and consistent with
  federal law and regulations, take all necessary  steps  to  correct  any
  overpayment  or underpayment to a public assistance recipient; provided,
  however, that a social services official may waive recovery  of  a  past
  overpayment,  in  the  case  of  an  individual  who  is not currently a
  recipient of public assistance, where the cost of  recovery  is  greater
  than the cost of collections as determined in accordance with department
  regulations  consistent  with federal law and regulations.  For purposes
  of this section, overpayment shall include payments made to an  eligible
  person  in  excess  of his needs as defined in this chapter and payments
  made to ineligible persons (including  payments  made  to  such  persons
  pending  a  fair  hearings  decision). The commissioner shall promulgate
  regulations to implement  procedures  for  correcting  overpayments  and
  underpayments.  The  procedures  for  correcting  overpayments  shall be
  designed to minimize adverse impact on the recipient, and to the  extent
  possible  avoid  undue hardship.  Notwithstanding any other provision of
  law to the contrary, no underpayment shall be corrected with respect  to
  a  person who is currently not eligible for or in receipt of home relief
  or aid to dependent children, except that  corrective  payments  may  be
  made  with respect to persons formerly eligible for or in receipt of aid
  to dependent children to the extent that  federal  law  and  regulations
  require.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 106-C - Crediting of Overpayment of Tax to Obligation of Public Assistance Recipients.

§  106-c.  Crediting  of  overpayment  of  tax to obligation of public
  assistance recipients. 1. The commissioner shall enter into an agreement
  with the commissioner of taxation and finance which shall set forth  the
  procedures  for  the  crediting  of  overpayments  of  tax  owed  to  an
  individual taxpayer, estate or trust to the repayment of overpayments of
  grants and allowances owed  to  the  department  or  a  social  services
  district  by  such  person  pursuant  to  the  provisions of section one
  hundred seventy-one-f of the tax law and is authorized to furnish to the
  commissioner of taxation and finance such information and to  take  such
  other  actions  as  may be necessary to carry out the agreement provided
  for in such section,  for  the  crediting  of  overpayments  of  tax  to
  repayment of overpayments of public assistance.
The  department  shall by regulation establish procedures by which any
  individual, estate or trust which is the subject of a  certification  to
  the department of taxation and finance in accordance with such agreement
  may contest such certification. Such regulations and the notice required
  by subdivision three of section one hundred seventy-one-f of the tax law
  shall  set  forth  defenses  which  may  be available to the individual,
  estate or trust to contest such certification and the manner in which  a
  review of the certification based on such defenses may be obtained.
2. In accordance with such agreement and the provisions of section one
  hundred  seventy-one-f  of the tax law, the department shall be entitled
  to receive payments to  satisfy  the  payment  obligation  of  a  person
  receiving  or who has received grants and allowances pursuant to section
  one hundred thirty-one-a,  section  one  hundred  thirty-one-s,  section
  three hundred one, and section three hundred fifty-j of this chapter, in
  accordance  with  a  written  final determination of the department or a
  social services district, provided that no proceeding for administrative
  or judicial review shall then be pending and the time for initiation  of
  such proceeding shall have expired.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 107 - Disposal of Seized Property and Penalties Collected.

§  107.    Disposal  of  seized property and penalties collected.  All
  properties seized and  penalties  collected  shall  be  administered  in
  accordance  with  the direction of the court having jurisdiction.  After
  the expenses approved by the court have been paid the balance  shall  be
  used  for  the  maintenance  of  such person, or to reimburse the public
  welfare fund for expenditures previously  made  for  his  assistance  or
  care.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 108 - Appointment of Guardians for Minors; Notice of Accounting.

§ 108.  Appointment of guardians for minors; notice of accounting.  If
  the  beneficiary  of  such seized property or penalty which is collected
  shall be a minor who is not in the custody of a parent and for  whom  no
  guardian  has  been  appointed,  the  court having jurisdiction over the
  matter shall appoint a guardian of the property for such minor.   Notice
  of  the  accounting  shall  be  given  to  the person, or the executors,
  administrators or successors  in  interest  of  the  person,  for  whose
  support  the  property  has been seized or the penalty collected, and to
  the guardian of any minor affected thereby.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 109 - Trust Funds to Be Established.

§  109.    Trust  funds to be established.   A public welfare official
  shall deposit any  funds  received  from  the  seizure  of  property  or
  collection  of  penalties for the support of a living person.  Such fund
  shall, as provided in section eighty-seven, be held and used  upon  such
  terms  as the court shall direct for the benefit of such person.  If the
  beneficiary of the fund is a minor, the court  may  require  the  public
  welfare official to give security and to report.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 110-A - Special Provisions for Legal Services to Enforce Support to Recover Costs of Public Assistance and Care and to Establish Paternity.

§  110-a.  Special provisions for legal services to enforce support to
  recover costs of public assistance and care and to establish  paternity.
  1.  Any inconsistent provision of law notwithstanding, the appropriating
  body  of a social services district may authorize and make provision for
  the social services commissioner  of  such  district  to  obtain:    (a)
  necessary legal services on a fee for service basis or other appropriate
  basis  which  the department may approve, to obtain support from spouses
  and parents, to recover costs of public assistance and care granted,  to
  establish  paternity,  and to initiate and prosecute proceedings for the
  commitment of the guardianship and custody  of  destitute  or  dependent
  children  to  authorized  agencies,  pursuant  to the provisions of this
  chapter and the domestic relations law, the family court act  and  other
  laws,  and  (b)  necessary  services  of private investigators, licensed
  pursuant to section seventy of the general business law, on  a  fee  for
  service  or other appropriate basis which the department may approve, to
  provide investigative assistance in efforts of the  district  to  locate
  absent parents and fathers of children born out of wedlock.
2.    Expenditures made by a social services district for the costs of
  such services shall be subject to reimbursement by the state pursuant to
  the provisions of section one hundred fifty-three or  other  appropriate
  provisions of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 110-B - Recovery From a Person Discovered to Have Property; Notice.

§  110-b.  Recovery from a person discovered to have property; notice.
  Notwithstanding  any  law,  rule  or  regulation  to  the  contrary,  an
  applicant  for public assistance shall be fully informed in writing that
  he or she may be liable to reimburse the  state  for  public  assistance
  benefits received, as provided for in this title. Notice may be given as
  part  of an informational booklet promulgated by the office of temporary
  and disability services and as a  standalone  document  on  his  or  her
  rights  and responsibilities. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to
  prevent the local social services district from maintaining its  records
  electronically.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6 - Powers to Enforce Support › 111 - Functions of the Department.

§ 111.  Functions of the department.  To assist welfare departments to
  carry  out  their  responsibilities,  powers  and  duties to enforce the
  liability of persons for the support of certain of their dependents  who
  are applicants for or recipients of public assistance or care or who are
  in  receipt  of  child  support services pursuant to section one hundred
  eleven-g of this chapter, the department shall:
1.    Continue  to  act  as,  and  perform  the  functions  of,  state
  information  agent  for  the  purposes  of the uniform interstate family
  support act of this state (article 5-B of  the  family  court  act)  and
  reciprocal laws of other states.
2.    As  required  by section three hundred seventy-two-a, aid in the
  location of deserting parents and, for such purpose, operate  a  central
  registry of deserting parents, obtain and transmit pertinent information
  and  data  from public officials and agencies and assist in the training
  of local personnel employed to locate such parents.
3.   Stimulate and  encourage  cooperation,  through  the  holding  of
  meetings  and  the  exchange  of  information,  between and among public
  officials, law enforcement agencies and courts having powers and  duties
  relating  to the enforcement of the liability of persons for the support
  of indigent members of their families, including cooperation with public
  officials, agencies and courts of other states.
4.  Upon request, or when required to do so  by  other  provisions  of
  law,   advise   such  officials  in  the  performance  of  their  duties
  hereinabove referred to.
5.  Develop or assist in the development of appropriate forms, guides,
  manuals, handbooks and other material which may be necessary  or  useful
  effectively to accomplish the foregoing and the purposes therefor.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-A - Federal Aid; State Plan.

§    111-a.    Federal aid; state plan.   1.  The department is hereby
  designated as the single state agency to supervise the administration of
  the state's child support program provided for  by  this  title,  and  a
  single  organizational  unit  shall be established within the department
  for such purposes.
2.  The department shall develop and  submit  a  state  child  support
  program  plan  as  required  by part D of title IV of the federal social
  security act to the federal department of health, education and  welfare
  for  approval  pursuant  to  such part in order to qualify the state for
  federal aid under such part.  The department shall act for the state  in
  any  negotiations  relative  to the submission and approval of such plan
  and shall make such arrangements as  may  be  necessary  to  obtain  and
  retain  such  approval  and  to secure for the state the benefits of the
  provisions of such federal act relating to child support programs.   The
  department shall promulgate regulations not inconsistent with law as may
  be necessary to assure that such plan conforms to the provisions of such
  part  and  any  federal  regulations  adopted  pursuant  thereto.    The
  department shall make all reports required by law to  be  made  to  such
  federal   department   in  the  form  and  manner  required  by  federal
  regulations.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-D - State Reimbursement.

§  111-d.    State  reimbursement.  1.  The  provisions of section one
  hundred fifty-three of this chapter shall be applicable to  expenditures
  by social services districts for activities related to the establishment
  of  paternity of children born out-of-wedlock, the location of deserting
  parents and the enforcement and collection of support  obligations  owed
  to  recipients  of  aid  to  dependent  children  and  persons receiving
  services pursuant to section one hundred eleven-g of this title.
2. The local share of expenditures incurred by the department for  the
  provision  of  centralized collection and disbursement services pursuant
  to section one hundred eleven-h of this title shall be charged  back  to
  social  services districts. The local share shall be fifty per centum of
  the amount expended by the department after  first  deducting  therefrom
  any  federal  funds  properly  received  or  to  be  received on account
  thereof; provided, however, that a social services district's  share  of
  the  costs  related  to  the  centralized  collection  and  disbursement
  functions shall not exceed  those  incurred  for  the  year  immediately
  preceding  implementation  of  such  functions,  except to the extent to
  which those costs would have increased had centralization of  collection
  and disbursement functions not occurred.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-E - Reimbursement to the State.

§    111-e.    Reimbursement to the state.  1.  A share of any support
  payments collected by the social  services  official,  less  any  amount
  disbursed  to  the family receiving family assistance, shall, subject to
  section one hundred eleven-f, be paid  to  the  state  as  reimbursement
  toward  the  amount  contributed by the state and federal governments to
  assistance furnished to such family.   Such share shall  bear  the  same
  ratio  to  the  amounts collected as the state and federal funds bear to
  assistance granted.
2.  Whenever one social services district makes collections on  behalf
  of  a  person  or  family  for  whom another social services district or
  another state  is  responsible  for  providing  assistance,  the  amount
  collected  shall be paid to the district or such other state responsible
  for providing such assistance, in accordance with the regulations of the
  department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-F - Federal Incentives.

§   111-f.   Federal  incentives.  The  department  is  authorized  to
  distribute to local districts  the  full  amount  of  federal  incentive
  payments received under title IV-D of the federal social security act.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-G - Availability of Paternity and Support Services.

§ 111-g. Availability of paternity and support services. 1. The office
of   temporary   and  disability  assistance  and  the  social  services
districts, in accordance with the regulations of the office of temporary
and  disability  assistance,  shall  make  services  relating   to   the
establishment  of  paternity  and  the  establishment and enforcement of
support obligations available to persons not receiving family assistance
upon application by  such  persons.  Such  persons  must  apply  by  (i)
completing  and  signing a form as prescribed by the office of temporary
and disability assistance, or (ii) filing a petition with the  court  or
applying to the court in a proceeding for the establishment of paternity
and/or  establishment  and/or enforcement of a support obligation, which
includes a statement signed by the person  requesting  services  clearly
indicating  that  such  person is applying for child support enforcement
services pursuant to this title.
2.  The  office  of  temporary  and  disability  assistance  may,   by
regulation,  require payment of an application fee for such services and
the deduction of costs in excess of such fee from amounts  collected  on
behalf of such persons.
3.  (a)  A  person who is receiving child support services pursuant to
this section who has never received assistance pursuant to title IV-A of
the federal social security act shall be subject to  an  annual  service
fee  of thirty-five dollars for each child support case if at least five
hundred fifty dollars of support  has  been  collected  in  the  federal
fiscal  year.    Where  a  custodial  parent has children with different
noncustodial parents, the order  payable  by  each  noncustodial  parent
shall  be  a  separate child support case for the purpose of imposing an
annual service fee.  The  fee  shall  be  deducted  from  child  support
payments received on behalf of the individual receiving services.
(b) In international cases under section 454(32) of the federal social
security  act  which  meet  the  criteria  for  imposition of the annual
service fee under paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the annual  service
fee  shall  be  imposed  but  may  not  be  collected  from  the country
requesting services  or  a  person  living  in  another  country  unless
permitted by federal law or regulation.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-I - Child Support Standards.

§  111-i.  Child  support  standards. 1. Each social services district
shall ascertain the ability of an absent parent to support or contribute
to the support of his or her children, in accordance with the  statewide
child  support standards as set forth in subdivision one of section four
hundred thirteen of the family court act.
2. (a)  The  commissioner  shall  publish  annually  a  child  support
standards  chart.  The  child support standards chart shall include: (i)
the revised poverty income guideline for a single person as reported  by
the  federal  department  of health and human services; (ii) the revised
self-support reserved as defined in section two  hundred  forty  of  the
domestic  relations  law;  (iii)  the  dollar  amounts  yielded  through
application of the child support percentage as defined  in  section  two
hundred  forty  of  the  domestic relations law and section four hundred
thirteen of the family court act; and (iv) the combined parental  income
amount.
(b)  The  combined  parental income amount to be reported in the child
support standards chart and utilized  in  calculating  orders  of  child
support  in  accordance  with  subparagraph  two  of  paragraph  (c)  of
subdivision one of section four hundred thirteen of the family court act
and subparagraph two of paragraph (c) of subdivision  one-b  of  section
two   hundred  forty  of  the  domestic  relations  law  as  of  January
thirty-first, two thousand  fourteen  shall  be  one  hundred  forty-one
thousand dollars; provided, however, beginning March first, two thousand
sixteen  and  every  two  years thereafter, the combined parental income
amount shall increase by  the  sum  of  the  average  annual  percentage
changes  in  the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) as
published by the United States  department  of  labor  bureau  of  labor
statistics  for  the  prior two years multiplied by the current combined
parental income amount and then rounded  to  the  nearest  one  thousand
dollars.
(c)  The  commissioner shall publish the child support standards chart
on an annual basis by April first of each year and  in  no  event  later
than  forty-five days following publication of the annual poverty income
guideline for a single person as reported by the federal  department  of
health and human services.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-J - Interception of Unemployment Insurance Benefits.

§  111-j.  Interception of unemployment insurance benefits. 1. (a) The
department shall determine on a periodic basis  whether  any  individual
receiving  unemployment  insurance benefits pursuant to article eighteen
of the state's labor law owes child support obligations which are  being
enforced  by  the  department or the child support enforcement unit of a
social services district and shall enforce any child support obligations
which are owed by such individual but  are  not  being  met  through  an
agreement  with  such  individual to have specific amounts withheld from
such benefits otherwise payable to such individual and by  submitting  a
copy of such agreement to the New York state department of labor.
(b)  In the absence of such an agreement, the department shall enforce
any such child support obligations as authorized by  the  court  in  any
order establishing such obligations and as otherwise provided by law.
2.  Any  amounts of unemployment insurance benefits deducted, withheld
and paid over by the  department  of  labor  pursuant  to  section  five
hundred  ninety-six of the labor law shall be treated as if it were paid
to the person entitled to such compensation and paid by such  person  to
the  department  or  appropriate  child  support  collection unit toward
satisfaction of such person's child support obligations. Each agency  or
district  receiving  payments  deducted by the department of labor shall
reimburse that department  for  the  administrative  costs  attributable
thereto.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-M - Agreement Relating to Information Obtained by the State Directory of New Hires.

§  111-m.    Agreement  relating  to information obtained by the state
  directory of new hires.  The department, through the commissioner, shall
  enter  into  the  agreement  provided  for  in   section   one   hundred
  seventy-one-h  of  the tax law, and shall take such other actions as may
  be necessary to carry out the agreement provided for in such section for
  matching recipient records of public assistance and of the child support
  enforcement program with information provided by employers to the  state
  directory  of  new  hires  for the purposes of verifying eligibility for
  such public assistance programs and for the administration of the  child
  support enforcement program.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-O - Data Matches With Financial Institutions.

§ 111-o.  Data matches with financial institutions.  The department or
  a  social  services district, through the commissioner, is authorized to
  enter into agreements with financial institutions  as  provided  for  in
  subdivision two of section four of the banking law and subsection (e) of
  section  three hundred twenty of the insurance law, and is authorized to
  furnish to and receive from those and any other financial  institutions,
  as  defined  in paragraph one of subdivision (d) of section four hundred
  sixty-nine A of the federal social security act, such information as may
  be necessary to carry out the agreements provided for in section four of
  the banking law and section three hundred twenty of the  insurance  law,
  for the enforcement of child support orders.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-P - Authority to Issue Subpoenas.

§  111-p.   Authority to issue subpoenas.  The department or the child
  support  enforcement  unit  coordinator  or  support   collection   unit
  supervisor  of  a  social  services district, or his or her designee, or
  another state's child support enforcement agency governed by title  IV-D
  of  the  social  security  act,  shall  be  authorized, whether or not a
  proceeding is currently pending, to subpoena from any person, public  or
  private entity or governmental agency, and such person, entity or agency
  shall  provide  any  financial  or other information needed to establish
  paternity and to establish, modify or enforce any support order.   If  a
  subpoena is served when a petition is not currently pending, the supreme
  court  or  a  judge  of the family court may hear and decide all motions
  relating to the subpoena. If the subpoena is served after a petition has
  been served, the court in which the petition is  returnable  shall  hear
  and  decide  all  motions  relating  to the subpoena.   Any such person,
  entity, or agency shall provide the subpoenaed information by  the  date
  as  specified  in  the subpoena.   Such subpoena shall be subject to the
  provisions of article twenty-three of the civil practice law and  rules.
  The  department  or district may impose a penalty for failure to respond
  to such information subpoenas pursuant to section  twenty-three  hundred
  eight of the civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-Q - Voiding of Fraudulent Transfers of Income or Property.

§  111-q.  Voiding of fraudulent transfers of income or property.  The
  department  or  a  social   services   district,   or   its   authorized
  representative,   after   obtaining   information   that  a  debtor  has
  transferred income, property or other assets to avoid payment to a child
  support creditor shall, pursuant  to  article  ten  of  the  debtor  and
  creditor  law  (1)  commence  a proceeding to void such transfer; or (2)
  obtain a settlement that is in the best interests of the  child  support
  creditor.  Provided,  however,  that no settlement shall reduce or annul
  any arrears of child support which have accrued prior  to  the  date  of
  settlement.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-R - Requirement to Respond to Requests for Information.

§  111-r.    Requirement  to respond to requests for information.  All
  employers, as defined in section one hundred eleven-m  of  this  article
  (including  for-profit,  not-for-profit and governmental employers), are
  required to provide information promptly on the employment, compensation
  and benefits of any individual employed by such employer as an  employee
  or  contractor, when the department or a social services district or its
  authorized representative, or another state's child support  enforcement
  agency  governed by title IV-D of the social security act, requests such
  information for the purpose of establishing paternity, or  establishing,
  modifying  or  enforcing  an order of support.   To the extent feasible,
  such  information  shall  be  requested  and  provided  using  automated
  systems, and shall include, but is not limited to, information regarding
  the  individual's  last  known  address,  date of birth, social security
  number, plans  providing  health  care  or  other  medical  benefits  by
  insurance  or  otherwise,  wages,  salaries, earnings or other income of
  such individual.   Notwithstanding any other provision  of  law  to  the
  contrary,  such  officials  are not required to obtain an order from any
  judicial or administrative tribunal in order to request or receive  such
  information.  The department shall be authorized to impose a penalty for
  failure  to  respond  to  such  requests  of five hundred dollars for an
  initial failure and seven hundred dollars for the second and  subsequent
  failure.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-S - Access to Information Containing Government and Private Records.

§  111-s.    Access to information contained in government and private
records.    1.    For  the  purpose  of   establishing   paternity,   or
establishing, modifying or enforcing an order of support, the department
or  a  social  services  district  or its authorized representative, and
child support enforcement agencies of other states established  pursuant
to  title  IV-D  of  the  social  security act, without the necessity of
obtaining an order from any other judicial  or  administrative  tribunal
and  subject  to  safeguards  on privacy and information security, shall
have access to information contained in the following records:
(a)  records of other state and local government agencies including:
(i)   vital statistics  (including  records  of  marriage,  birth  and
divorce);
(ii)    state and local tax and revenue records (including information
on residence address, employer, income and assets);
(iii)  records concerning real and titled personal property;
(iv)  records of occupational and professional licenses,  and  records
concerning  the  ownership and control of corporations, partnerships and
other business entities;
(v)  employment security records;
(vi)  records of agencies administering public assistance programs;
(vii)  records of the department of motor vehicles; and
(viii)  corrections records; and
(b)  certain records held by private corporations, companies, or other
entities with respect to individuals who owe or  are  owed  support  (or
against  or  with respect to whom a support obligation is being sought),
consisting of:
(i)  pursuant to an administrative subpoena authorized by section  one
hundred  eleven-p of this title, the names, addresses, telephone numbers
and dates of birth of such individuals, and the names and  addresses  of
the  employers  of such individuals, as appearing in customer records of
public utilities companies and corporations, including, but not  limited
to,  cable television, gas, electric, steam, and telephone companies and
corporations, as defined in section two of the public service law, doing
business within the state of New York; and
(ii)  information on such individuals held by financial  institutions,
including information regarding assets and liabilities.
2.    Notwithstanding  any other provision of law to the contrary, any
government  or  private  entity  to  which  a  request  for  access   to
information  is directed pursuant to subdivision one of this section, is
authorized and required to comply with such  request.    To  the  extent
feasible,  access  to  such  information shall be requested and provided
using automated  systems.    Any  government  or  private  entity  which
discloses information pursuant to this section shall not be liable under
any  federal  or state law to any person for such disclosure, or for any
other action taken in good faith to comply with this subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-T - Authority to Secure Assets.

§  111-t.    Authority  to secure assets.   The department or a social
services district or its authorized representative, or  another  state's
child  support  enforcement  agency governed by title IV-D of the social
security act, for the purpose of collecting overdue  support,  shall  be
authorized  in  accordance  with  all  applicable  provisions of law, to
secure assets otherwise due a support obligor by:
1.  intercepting or seizing periodic or lump  sum  payments  due  such
obligor from:
(a)    a  state  or local agency, including unemployment compensation,
workers' compensation, and other benefits; and
(b)  judgments, settlements and lottery winnings;
2.  attaching and seizing assets of such obligors which  are  held  in
financial institutions;
3.    attaching  public and private retirement funds of such obligors;
and
4.  imposing liens against real and personal property  owned  by  such
obligors;  and  where appropriate, forcing the sale of property owned by
such  obligors  and  distributing  proceeds  from  the  sale   of   such
properties.