N.Y. Social Services Law § 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 par (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 par (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.