Section 111-J. Interception of unemployment insurance benefits

1. (a) The
  department shall determine on a periodic basis  whether  any  individual
  receiving  unemployment  insurance benefits pursuant to article eighteen
  of the state's labor law owes child support obligations which are  being
  enforced  by  the  department or the child support enforcement unit of a
  social services district and shall enforce any child support obligations
  which are owed by such individual but  are  not  being  met  through  an
  agreement  with  such  individual to have specific amounts withheld from
  such benefits otherwise payable to such individual and by  submitting  a
  copy of such agreement to the New York state department of labor.
    (b)  In the absence of such an agreement, the department shall enforce
  any such child support obligations as authorized by  the  court  in  any
  order establishing such obligations and as otherwise provided by law.
    2.  Any  amounts of unemployment insurance benefits deducted, withheld
  and paid over by the  department  of  labor  pursuant  to  section  five
  hundred  ninety-six of the labor law shall be treated as if it were paid
  to the person entitled to such compensation and paid by such  person  to
  the  department  or  appropriate  child  support  collection unit toward
  satisfaction of such person's child support obligations. Each agency  or
  district  receiving  payments  deducted by the department of labor shall
  reimburse that department  for  the  administrative  costs  attributable
  thereto.