N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 218: Disability benefit rights inalienable

§ 218. Disability benefit rights inalienable. 1. Any agreement by an

employee to waive his rights under this article shall be void.

2. Disability benefits payable under this article shall not be

assigned or released, except as provided in this article, and shall be

exempt from all claims of creditors and from levy, execution and

attachment or other remedy for recovery or collection of a debt, which

exemption may not be waived provided, however, that such benefits shall

be subject to an income execution or order for support enforcement

pursuant to section fifty-two hundred forty-one or fifty-two hundred

forty-two of the civil practice law and rules.