Section 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 ù(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 ù(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.