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                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ROBINSON
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services

AN  ACT to amend the social services law and the tax law, in relation to
  wage reporting

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 23 of the social
services law, as amended by chapter 398 of the laws of 1997, is  amended
to read as follows:
  (a)  to  social  services districts (I) with respect to applicants for
[and], recipients of public assistance and care or other benefits pursu-
ant 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 [and]; (III) with respect to any person legal-
ly 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] 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 CARE AND
CUSTODY OR CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF A LOCAL  COMMISSIONER  OF  SOCIAL
SERVICES  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, 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;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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  S  2. Subdivision 3 of section 23 of the social services law, as sepa-
rately amended by chapters 304 and 818 of the laws of 1990,  is  amended
to read as follows:
  3.  Information  obtained  by the [department] OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND
DISABILITY ASSISTANCE from the wage reporting  system  operated  by  the
state  department  of taxation and finance shall be considered confiden-
tial and shall not be disclosed to persons or agencies other than  those
considered  entitled  to such information when such disclosure is neces-
sary 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  ELIGI-
BILITY  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.
  S  3.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 171-a of the tax law,
as amended by chapter 304 of the laws of 1990 and as designated by chap-
ter 818 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
  (a) Notwithstanding any law to  the  contrary,  the  commissioner  [of
taxation  and  finance]  shall maintain a cooperative agreement with the
state [department of social services] OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND DISABILITY
ASSISTANCE, which agreement shall provide for the utilization of  infor-
mation  obtained  pursuant  to subdivision one [hereof] OF THIS SECTION,
for the purpose of verifying eligibility for and entitlement to  amounts
of  benefits  under  the social services law, locating absent parents or
other persons legally responsible  for  the  support  of  applicants  or
recipients  of  public assistance and care under the social services law
and persons legally responsible  for  the  support  of  a  recipient  of
services  under  section one hundred eleven-g of the social services law
and, in appropriate cases, establishing support obligations pursuant  to
the social services law and the family court act, AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF
DETERMINING  THE  ELIGIBILITY  OF  ANY  CHILD IN THE CARE AND CUSTODY OR
CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF A LOCAL COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL  SERVICES  OR
OF  THE  OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES FOR FEDERAL PAYMENTS FOR
FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF  TITLE
IV-E  OF  THE  FEDERAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACT BY PROVIDING INFORMATION WITH
RESPECT TO THE PARENTS, THE STEPPARENTS, THE CHILD AND THE  SIBLINGS  OF
THE CHILD WHO WERE LIVING IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD AS SUCH CHILD 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 THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW OR SECTION THREE HUNDRED EIGHT-
Y-FOUR-A  OF  THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW WAS SIGNED, and for the purpose of
evaluating the effect on earnings  of  participation  in  employment  or
training  programs  authorized  pursuant  to  the social services law by
current recipients of public assistance and care and by  former  recipi-
ents of public assistance and care, such agreement shall further provide
to  the degree required by federal law for the commissioner [of taxation

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and finance] and the [social services department]  OFFICE  OF  TEMPORARY
AND  DISABILITY  ASSISTANCE  to provide information obtained pursuant to
subdivision one of this section to the federal social security  adminis-
tration  or to public agencies in other states which administer programs
under the food stamp act of nineteen hundred seventy-seven or  title  I,
II,  IV-A,  IV-D, X, XIV, XVI, or XIX of the federal social security act
and to take such other steps as may be required by section one  thousand
one  hundred  thirty-seven  of  the social security act or federal regu-
lations promulgated thereunder.
  S 4. Paragraph 3 of subsection (e) of section 697 of the tax  law,  as
separately amended by section 1 of part M of chapter 57 and section 45-f
of  part  C  of  chapter  58  of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
follows:
  (3) Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the department,  its
officers  or  employees  from  furnishing  information  to the office of
temporary and disability assistance relating to the payment of the cred-
it for certain household and dependent care services necessary for gain-
ful employment under subsection (c) of section six hundred six  of  this
article and the earned income credit under subsection (d) of section six
hundred  six  of  this  article, or pursuant to a local law enacted by a
city having a population of one million or more pursuant  to  subsection
(f)  of section thirteen hundred ten of this chapter, only to the extent
necessary to calculate  qualified  state  expenditures  under  paragraph
seven  of  subdivision  (a)  of section four hundred nine of the federal
social security act or to document the  proper  expenditure  of  federal
temporary assistance for needy families funds under section four hundred
three of such act. The office of temporary and disability assistance may
redisclose  such  information  to the United States department of health
and human services only to the extent necessary to calculate such quali-
fied state expenditures or to document the proper  expenditure  of  such
federal  temporary  assistance  for needy families funds. Nothing herein
shall be construed to prohibit the delivery by  the  commissioner  to  a
commissioner  of jurors, appointed pursuant to section five hundred four
of the judiciary law, or, in counties within cities having a  population
of one million or more, to the county clerk of such county, of a mailing
list  of  individuals to whom income tax forms are mailed by the commis-
sioner for the sole purpose of compiling a list of prospective jurors as
provided in article sixteen of the judiciary law.    Provided,  however,
such  delivery  shall  only  be  made  pursuant to an order of the chief
administrator of the courts, appointed pursuant to section  two  hundred
ten  of the judiciary law. No such order may be issued unless such chief
administrator is satisfied that such mailing list is needed to compile a
proper list of prospective jurors for the county for which such order is
sought and that, in view of the responsibilities imposed by the  various
laws  of  the  state  on the department, it is reasonable to require the
commissioner to furnish such list. Such order shall  provide  that  such
list  shall be used for the sole purpose of compiling a list of prospec-
tive jurors and that such commissioner of jurors, or such county  clerk,
shall take all necessary steps to insure that the list is kept confiden-
tial  and  that there is no unauthorized use or disclosure of such list.
Furthermore, nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the  delivery
to  a  taxpayer or his or her duly authorized representative of a certi-
fied copy of any return or report filed in connection with  his  or  her
tax  or  to  prohibit  the publication of statistics so classified as to
prevent the identification of particular  reports  or  returns  and  the
items  thereof, or the inspection by the attorney general or other legal

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representatives of the state of the report or return of any taxpayer  or
of  any  employer  filed under section one hundred seventy-one-h of this
chapter, where such taxpayer or employer shall bring action to set aside
or review the tax based thereon, or against whom an action or proceeding
under  this  chapter  or  under this chapter and article eighteen of the
labor law has been recommended by the commissioner, the commissioner  of
labor  with  respect  to unemployment insurance matters, or the attorney
general or has been instituted, or the  inspection  of  the  reports  or
returns  required  under  this article by the comptroller or duly desig-
nated officer or employee of the state department of audit and  control,
for  purposes  of  the  audit  of a refund of any tax paid by a taxpayer
under this article, or the furnishing to the state department  of  labor
of unemployment insurance information obtained or derived from quarterly
combined  withholding, wage reporting and unemployment insurance returns
required to  be  filed  by  employers  pursuant  to  paragraph  four  of
subsection  (a) of section six hundred seventy-four of this article, for
purposes of administration of such department's  unemployment  insurance
program,  employment  services program, federal and state employment and
training programs, employment statistics and  labor  market  information
programs,  worker  protection  programs,  federal programs for which the
department has  administrative  responsibility  or  for  other  purposes
deemed  appropriate  by  the  commissioner  of labor consistent with the
provisions of the labor law, and redisclosure  of  such  information  in
accordance  with  the provisions of sections five hundred thirty-six and
five hundred thirty-seven of the labor law or any other applicable  law,
or  the  furnishing  to  the  state  office  of temporary and disability
assistance of information  obtained  or  derived  from  New  York  state
personal income tax returns as described in paragraph (b) of subdivision
two of section one hundred seventy-one-g of this chapter for the purpose
of  reviewing support orders enforced pursuant to title six-A of article
three of the social services law to aid in the determination of  whether
such  orders  should  be  adjusted,  or  the  furnishing  of information
obtained from the reports required to be submitted by employers  regard-
ing  newly  hired  or re-hired employees pursuant to section one hundred
seventy-one-h of this chapter to the state office of temporary and disa-
bility assistance, the state department of health, the state  department
of  labor  and  the workers' compensation board for purposes of adminis-
tration of the child support enforcement program, verification of  indi-
viduals'  eligibility  for  one  or  more  of  the programs specified in
subsection (b) of section eleven hundred  thirty-seven  of  the  federal
social  security act and for other public assistance programs authorized
by state law, and administration of the state's employment security  and
workers'  compensation  programs,  and  to the national directory of new
hires established pursuant to section four hundred fifty-three-A of  the
federal  social security act for the purposes specified in such section,
or the furnishing to  the  state  office  of  temporary  and  disability
assistance  of  the  amount of an overpayment of income tax and interest
thereon certified to the comptroller to  be  credited  against  past-due
support  pursuant  to  section one hundred seventy-one-c of this chapter
and of the name and social security number of the taxpayer who made such
overpayment, or the disclosing to the commissioner  of  finance  of  the
city  of New York, pursuant to section one hundred seventy-one-l of this
chapter, of the amount of an overpayment and interest thereon  certified
to the comptroller to be credited against a city of New York tax warrant
judgment debt and of the name and social security number of the taxpayer
who made such overpayment, or the furnishing to the New York state high-

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er  education  services  corporation  of the amount of an overpayment of
income tax and interest thereon certified to the comptroller to be cred-
ited against the amount of a default in repayment of any education  loan
debt, including judgments, owed to the federal or New York state govern-
ment  that  is  being  collected  by the New York state higher education
services corporation, and of the name and social security number of  the
taxpayer  who  made  such  overpayment,  or  the furnishing to the state
department of health of the information required  by  paragraph  (f)  of
subdivision  two  and  subdivision  two-a  of  section two thousand five
hundred eleven of the public health law  and  by  subdivision  eight  of
section three hundred sixty-six-a and paragraphs (b) and (d) of subdivi-
sion  two  of section three hundred sixty-nine-ee of the social services
law, or the furnishing to the state university of New York or  the  city
university of New York respectively or the attorney general on behalf of
such state or city university the amount of an overpayment of income tax
and interest thereon certified to the comptroller to be credited against
the amount of a default in repayment of a state university loan pursuant
to section one hundred seventy-one-e of this chapter and of the name and
social security number of the taxpayer who made such overpayment, or the
disclosing  to  a state agency, pursuant to section one hundred seventy-
one-f of this chapter, of the amount  of  an  overpayment  and  interest
thereon  certified  to the comptroller to be credited against a past-due
legally enforceable debt owed to such agency and of the name and  social
security  number  of  the  taxpayer  who  made  such overpayment, or the
furnishing of employee and employer  information  obtained  through  the
wage  reporting system, pursuant to section one hundred seventy-one-a of
this chapter, as added by chapter five hundred forty-five of the laws of
nineteen hundred seventy-eight, to the state  office  of  temporary  and
disability  assistance,  the department of health or to the state office
of the medicaid inspector general for the purpose of verifying eligibil-
ity for and entitlement to amounts of benefits under the social services
law or similar law of another jurisdiction, locating absent  parents  or
other  persons  legally responsible for the support of applicants for or
recipients of public assistance and care under the social  services  law
and  persons  legally  responsible  for  the  support  of a recipient of
services under section one hundred eleven-g of the social  services  law
and,  in appropriate cases, establishing support obligations pursuant to
the social services law and the family court act or similar provision of
law of another jurisdiction for the purpose of evaluating the effect  on
earnings  of  participation  in  employment,  training or other programs
designed to promote self-sufficiency authorized pursuant to  the  social
services  law by current recipients of public assistance and care and by
former applicants and 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),  TO THE STATE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND DISABILITY ASSIST-
ANCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING THE ELIGIBILITY OF ANY CHILD IN  THE
CARE  AND CUSTODY OR CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF A LOCAL COMMISSIONER OF
SOCIAL SERVICES OR OF THE OFFICE OF CHILDREN  AND  FAMILY  SERVICES  FOR
FEDERAL PAYMENTS FOR FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF TITLE IV-E OF THE FEDERAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACT BY PROVIDING
INFORMATION  WITH RESPECT TO THE PARENTS, THE STEPPARENTS, THE CHILD AND
THE SIBLINGS OF THE CHILD WHO WERE LIVING IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD AS  SUCH
CHILD 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

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SECTION THREE HUNDRED  FIFTY-EIGHT-A  OF  THE  SOCIAL  SERVICES  LAW  OR
SECTION  THREE  HUNDRED  EIGHTY-FOUR-A  OF  THE  SOCIAL SERVICES LAW WAS
SIGNED, and to the state  department  of  labor,  or  other  individuals
designated by the commissioner of labor, for the purpose of the adminis-
tration  of such department's unemployment insurance program, employment
services program, federal and state employment  and  training  programs,
employment  statistics  and  labor  market  information programs, worker
protection programs, federal  programs  for  which  the  department  has
administrative  responsibility  or for other purposes deemed appropriate
by the commissioner of labor consistent with the provisions of the labor
law, and  redisclosure  of  such  information  in  accordance  with  the
provisions  of sections five hundred thirty-six and five hundred thirty-
seven of the labor law, or  the  furnishing  of  information,  which  is
obtained from the wage reporting system operated pursuant to section one
hundred  seventy-one-a of this chapter, as added by chapter five hundred
forty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-eight, to  the  state
office  of  temporary  and  disability assistance so that it may furnish
such information to public agencies of other  jurisdictions  with  which
the state office of temporary and disability assistance has an agreement
pursuant  to paragraph (h) or (i) of subdivision three of section twenty
of the social services law, and to the state  office  of  temporary  and
disability  assistance  for  the  purpose  of fulfilling obligations and
responsibilities otherwise incumbent upon the state department of labor,
under section one hundred twenty-four of the federal family support  act
of  nineteen  hundred eighty-eight, by giving the federal parent locator
service, maintained by  the  federal  department  of  health  and  human
services,  prompt access to such information as required by such act, or
to the state department of health to verify eligibility under the  child
health  insurance plan pursuant to subdivisions two and two-a of section
two thousand five hundred eleven of the public  health  law,  to  verify
eligibility under the medical assistance and family health plus programs
pursuant  to  subdivision eight of section three hundred sixty-six-a and
paragraphs (b) and (d) of  subdivision  two  of  section  three  hundred
sixty-nine-ee  of the social services law, and to verify eligibility for
the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance  coverage  under  title
three  of  article  two of the elder law, or to the office of vocational
and educational services for individuals with disabilities of the educa-
tion department, the commission for the blind and  visually  handicapped
and  any  other  state vocational rehabilitation agency, for purposes of
obtaining reimbursement from the federal social security  administration
for  expenditures made by such office, commission or agency on behalf of
disabled individuals who have achieved economic self-sufficiency  or  to
the  higher  education services corporation for the purpose of assisting
the corporation in default prevention and default collection  of  educa-
tion  loan  debt,  including  judgments, owed to the federal or New York
state government; provided, however,  that  such  information  shall  be
limited  to  the  names,  social  security numbers, home and/or business
addresses, and employer names of defaulted or  delinquent  student  loan
borrowers.
  Provided,  however,  that  with  respect  to  employee information the
office of temporary and disability assistance shall  only  be  furnished
with the names, social security account numbers and gross wages of those
employees who are (A) applicants for or recipients of benefits under the
social services law, or similar provision of law of another jurisdiction
(pursuant  to  an agreement under subdivision three of section twenty of
the social services law) or, (B) absent parents or other persons legally

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responsible for the support of applicants for or  recipients  of  public
assistance  and  care under the social services law or similar provision
of law of another jurisdiction (pursuant to an agreement under  subdivi-
sion three of section twenty of the social services law), or (C) persons
legally  responsible  for  the  support of a recipient of services under
section one hundred eleven-g of  the  social  services  law  or  similar
provision of law of another jurisdiction (pursuant to an agreement under
subdivision  three of section twenty of the social services law), or (D)
employees  about  whom  wage  reporting  system  information  is   being
furnished  to  public  agencies  of  other jurisdictions, with which the
state office of temporary and disability  assistance  has  an  agreement
pursuant  to paragraph (h) or (i) of subdivision three of section twenty
of the social services law, or (E) employees about whom  wage  reporting
system  information  is  being  furnished  to the federal parent locator
service, maintained by  the  federal  department  of  health  and  human
services,  for the purpose of enabling the state office of temporary and
disability assistance to fulfill obligations and responsibilities other-
wise incumbent upon the state department of  labor,  under  section  one
hundred  twenty-four  of  the  federal  family  support  act of nineteen
hundred eighty-eight, and, only if, the office of temporary and disabil-
ity assistance certifies to the commissioner that such persons are  such
applicants,  recipients,  absent  parents or persons legally responsible
for support or persons about whom information has been  requested  by  a
public  agency  of another jurisdiction or by the federal parent locator
service and further certifies that in the case of information  requested
under  agreements  with  other  jurisdictions  entered  into pursuant to
subdivision three of section twenty of the  social  services  law,  that
such request is in compliance with any applicable federal law. Provided,
further,  that  where  the office of temporary and disability assistance
requests employee information for the purpose of evaluating the  effects
on  earnings  of participation in employment, training or other programs
designed to promote self-sufficiency authorized pursuant to  the  social
services  law,  the  office of temporary and disability assistance shall
only be furnished with the quarterly gross wages (excluding  any  refer-
ence  to the name, social security number or any other information which
could be used to identify any employee or  the  name  or  identification
number  of any employer) paid to employees who are former applicants for
or recipients of public assistance and care and who are so certified  to
the  commissioner  by  the  commissioner  of the office of temporary and
disability assistance. Provided, further, that with respect to  employee
information,  the  department of health shall only be furnished with the
information required pursuant to the  provisions  of  paragraph  (f)  of
subdivision  two  and  subdivision  two-a  of  section two thousand five
hundred eleven of the public health law and subdivision eight of section
three hundred sixty-six-a and paragraphs (b) and (d) of subdivision  two
of  section three hundred sixty-nine-ee of the social services law, with
respect to those individuals whose eligibility under  the  child  health
insurance  plan,  medical  assistance  program,  and  family health plus
program is to be determined pursuant to such provisions and with respect
to those members of any such individual's household whose income affects
such individual's eligibility and who are so certified  to  the  commis-
sioner  or  by  the  department  of health. Provided, further, that wage
reporting information shall be furnished to the office of vocational and
educational services for individuals with disabilities of the  education
department,  the  commission  for the blind and visually handicapped and
any other state vocational rehabilitation agency only  if  such  office,

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commission  or agency, as applicable, certifies to the commissioner that
such information is necessary to obtain reimbursement from  the  federal
social  security administration for expenditures made on behalf of disa-
bled individuals who have achieved self-sufficiency. Reports and returns
shall be preserved for three years and thereafter until the commissioner
orders them to be destroyed.
  S  5. Section 697 of the tax law is amended by adding a new subsection
(o) to read as follows:
  (O) EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION WITH THE STATE  OFFICE  OF  TEMPORARY  AND
DISABILITY  ASSISTANCE.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF  LAW TO THE
CONTRARY, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL FURNISH TO THE STATE OFFICE OF  TEMPORARY
AND  DISABILITY  ASSISTANCE,  OR  OTHER  INDIVIDUALS  DESIGNATED  BY THE
COMMISSIONER OF SUCH OFFICE WHO ARE ENGAGED IN PURPOSES DEEMED APPROPRI-
ATE BY THE COMMISSIONER OF SUCH OFFICE CONSISTENT WITH THE PROVISIONS OF
THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW AND THE FEDERAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACT,  THE  NAME,
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND WAGES OF INDIVIDUALS, AND THE NAME AND FEDER-
AL  EMPLOYER  IDENTIFICATION  NUMBER OF EMPLOYERS CONTAINED WITHIN WITH-
HOLDING TAX INFORMATION REQUIRED FROM EMPLOYERS PURSUANT TO  PART  V  OF
THIS ARTICLE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING THE ELIGIBILITY OF ANY CHILD
IN  THE  CARE AND CUSTODY OR CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF A LOCAL COMMIS-
SIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES OR  OF  THE  OFFICE  OF  CHILDREN  AND  FAMILY
SERVICES  FOR  FEDERAL  PAYMENTS FOR FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION ASSISTANCE
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE IV-E OF THE FEDERAL SOCIAL  SECURITY
ACT  BY  PROVIDING INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO THE PARENTS, THE STEPPAR-
ENTS, THE CHILD AND THE SIBLINGS OF THE CHILD WHO  WERE  LIVING  IN  THE
SAME HOUSEHOLD AS SUCH CHILD 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  THE  SOCIAL
SERVICES  LAW  OR  SECTION  THREE  HUNDRED  EIGHTY-FOUR-A  OF THE SOCIAL
SERVICES LAW WAS SIGNED.
  S 6. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.