N.Y. Social Services Law § 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.