§ 111-c. Functions, powers and duties of social services officials.\n1. Each social services district shall establish a single organizational\nunit which shall be responsible for such district's activities in\nassisting the state in the location of absent parents, establishment of\nparentage and enforcement and collection of support in accordance with\nthe regulations of the department.\n 2. Each social services district shall:\n a. obtain assignments to the state and to such district of support\nrights of each applicant for or recipient of public assistance required\nto execute such an assignment as a condition of receiving assistance;\n b. report to the state all recipients of public assistance with\nrespect to whom a parent has been reported absent from the household;\n c. obtain information regarding the income and resources of absent\nparents whose whereabouts are known, and shall have access to the\nstatement of net worth filed pursuant to section four hundred\ntwenty-four-a of the family court act and supporting documentation in\nany case where support collection services are being provided as may be\nnecessary to ascertain their ability to support or contribute to the\nsupport of their dependents;\n d. enforce support obligations owed to the state and to the social\nservices district pursuant to subdivision two of section one hundred\neleven-b of this title; and disburse amounts collected as support\npayments in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the\nregulations of the department, including the disbursement to the family\nin receipt of public assistance of up to the first one hundred dollars\nfor one child, and up to the first two hundred dollars for two or more\nchildren, collected as current support;\n e. make periodic reports and perform such other functions in\naccordance with the regulations of the department as may be necessary to\nassure compliance with federal child support program requirements.\n f. confer with a potential respondent, respondent or other interested\nperson in a proceeding under article four, five, five-A or five-B of the\nfamily court act in an attempt to obtain support payments from such\npotential respondent or respondent;\n g. obtain from respondent, when appropriate and in accordance with the\nprocedures established by section one hundred eleven-k of this chapter,\nan acknowledgement of parentage or an agreement to make support\npayments, or both;\n h. report periodically to consumer reporting agencies (as defined in\nsection 603(f) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a(f))\ninformation regarding past-due support owed by the parent owing support.\nSuch information must be made available whenever a parent who owes\npast-due support, and shall indicate the name of the parent and the\namount of the delinquency. However, such information shall not be made\navailable to (i) a consumer reporting agency that the office determines\ndoes not have sufficient capability to systematically and timely make\naccurate use of such information, or (ii) an entity that has not\nfurnished evidence satisfactory to the office that the entity is a\nconsumer reporting agency. In determining whether a consumer reporting\nagency lacks sufficient capability to systematically and timely make\naccurate use of such information, the office may require such agency to\ndemonstrate its ability to comply with the provisions of section three\nhundred eighty-j of the general business law and any other requirements\nthe office may prescribe by regulation. A social services official, at\nleast ten days prior to making the information available to a consumer\nreporting agency, must provide notice to the parent who owes the support\ninforming such parent of the proposed release of the information to the\nconsumer reporting agency and informing such parent of the opportunity\nto be heard and the methods available for contesting the accuracy of the\ninformation.\n 3. Notwithstanding the foregoi
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