New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 18 - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter II - Regulations of the Department of Social Services
Subchapter A - General Welfare
Article 5 - Miscellaneous
Part 347 - Establishment of Parentage and Enforcement of Child Support
Section 347.16 - Federal incentive payments

(a) For purposes of this section, support collections include all support collections retained in cases receiving child support services from all sources: within a social services district, from other New York State social services districts, and from other states, as well as collections made in the reporting social services district and forwarded to other states.

(b) The incentive payment made to a state in a federal fiscal year will be determined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services based on statewide performance in each of the following five performance measures of the child support enforcement program ( Title IV-D): paternity establishment; support order establishment; current support payments; arrearage payments; and costeffectiveness.

(c) States receive federal incentives based upon their respective percentage of the maximum incentive base for all states as applied against the total capped incentive payment pool available to all states. The incentive payment for a state for a federal fiscal year will be equal to the incentive payment pool for the federal fiscal year, multiplied by the state's incentive payment share for the federal fiscal year.

(d) The Office will allocate an amount of the federal incentive payment made to the State in a federal fiscal year to the social services districts based on the following methodology:

(e) During each federal fiscal year, the Office will advise each social services district of its respective child support incentive amount. Each social services district will report its child support incentive amount in accordance with Office guidelines.