2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 23 - Wage Reporting System.

§ 23.  Wage  reporting  system.  1.  The  department  is authorized to
provide information obtained from the wage reporting system as  operated
by the state department of taxation and finance:
(a) to social services districts:
(i) with respect to applicants for and recipients of public assistance
and  care  or  other  benefits  pursuant  to this chapter for which such
districts are responsible;
(ii) with respect to any person legally responsible for the support of
such applicants and recipients;
(iii) with respect to any person legally responsible for  the  support
of  a  recipient  of services under section one hundred eleven-g of this
chapter or to any agent of any entity that is under  contract  with  the
child  support  program pursuant to title six-A of article three of this
chapter; and
(iv) with respect to the parents, the stepparents, the child  and  the
siblings  of  the child who were living in the same household as a child
who is in the custody, care and custody or custody and guardianship of a
local social services district or of the office of children  and  family
services  during  the  month  that  the court proceedings leading to the
child's removal from  the  household  were  initiated,  or  the  written
instrument  transferring  care  and custody of the child pursuant to the
provisions of section three hundred fifty-eight-a  of  this  chapter  or
section three hundred eighty-four-a of this chapter was signed, provided
however,   that  such  social  services  district  shall  only  use  the
information obtained pursuant to this subdivision  for  the  purpose  of
determining  the  eligibility  of  such  child  for federal payments for
foster care and adoption assistance pursuant to the provisions of  title
IV-E of the federal social security act,
(b)  to  a  public agency responsible for the administration of public
assistance and care in any geographically contiguous  state  with  which
the  department  has  an  agreement  with  respect  to  wage information
pursuant to paragraph (h) of subdivision three of section twenty of this
article,
* (c) to social services districts with  respect  to  participants  in
employment  or training programs authorized pursuant to this chapter who
are current recipients of public assistance and care or who  are  former
recipients  of  public  assistance and care, (except that with regard to
former recipients, information which  relates  to  a  particular  former
recipient  shall  be  provided with client identifying data deleted) for
the purpose of evaluating the effect of participation in  such  programs
on such current and former recipients, and
* NB There are 2 ù(c)'s
* (c) to the federal parent locator service, maintained by the federal
department  of  health  and  human  services, as required by section one
hundred twenty-four of  the  federal  family  support  act  of  nineteen
hundred  eighty-eight,  for  the  purpose  of enabling the department to
fulfill obligations and responsibilities otherwise  incumbent  upon  the
state department of labor.
* NB There are 2 ù(c)'s
(d)  to the federal social security administration or public agency of
another state with which the department has an agreement with respect to
wage information pursuant to  paragraph  (i)  of  subdivision  three  of
section twenty of this article.
2.  Notwithstanding  any  law  to  the  contrary, the department, upon
request by the office of welfare inspector general, shall  provide  said
office  with such information it receives from the wage reporting system
operated by the department of taxation and finance that  the  office  of

welfare inspector general deems necessary to carry out its functions and
duties under article four of the executive law.
3.  Information  obtained  by  the  office of temporary and disability
assistance  from  the  wage  reporting  system  operated  by  the  state
department  of taxation and finance shall be considered confidential and
shall  not  be  disclosed  to  persons  or  agencies  other  than  those
considered   entitled  to  such  information  when  such  disclosure  is
necessary for the proper administration of programs of public assistance
and care or for the proper administration of the child  support  program
pursuant  to  title  six-A  of  article  three  of  this  chapter, or of
eligibility assessments of children for federal payments for foster care
and adoption assistance pursuant to the provisions of title IV-E of  the
federal  social  security  act. For the purpose of this subdivision, any
disclosure made pursuant to subdivision one of  this  section  shall  be
considered necessary for the proper administration of programs of public
assistance  and  care,  or  of  eligibility  assessments of children for
federal payments for foster care and adoption assistance pursuant to the
provisions of title IV-E of the federal social  security  act;  and  the
federal parent locator service shall be considered an agency entitled to
such  information  as  is necessary for the proper administration of the
child support program pursuant to title six-A of article three  of  this
chapter.