2021 New York Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties
Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support
111-I - Child Support Standards.

§  111-i.  Child  support  standards. 1. Each social services district
shall ascertain the ability of an absent parent to support or contribute
to the support of his or her children, in accordance with the  statewide
child  support standards as set forth in subdivision one of section four
hundred thirteen of the family court act.
  2. (a)  The  commissioner  shall  publish  annually  a  child  support
standards  chart.  The  child support standards chart shall include: (i)
the revised poverty income guideline for a single person as reported  by
the  federal  department  of health and human services; (ii) the revised
self-support reserved as defined in section two  hundred  forty  of  the
domestic  relations  law;  (iii)  the  dollar  amounts  yielded  through
application of the child support percentage as defined  in  section  two
hundred  forty  of  the  domestic relations law and section four hundred
thirteen of the family court act; and (iv) the combined parental  income
amount.
  (b)  The  combined  parental income amount to be reported in the child
support standards chart and utilized  in  calculating  orders  of  child
support  in  accordance  with  subparagraph  two  of  paragraph  (c)  of
subdivision one of section four hundred thirteen of the family court act
and subparagraph two of paragraph (c) of subdivision  one-b  of  section
two   hundred  forty  of  the  domestic  relations  law  as  of  January
thirty-first, two thousand  fourteen  shall  be  one  hundred  forty-one
thousand dollars; provided, however, beginning March first, two thousand
sixteen  and  every  two  years thereafter, the combined parental income
amount shall increase by  the  sum  of  the  average  annual  percentage
changes  in  the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) as
published by the United States  department  of  labor  bureau  of  labor
statistics  for  the  prior two years multiplied by the current combined
parental income amount and then rounded  to  the  nearest  one  thousand
dollars.
  (c)  The  commissioner shall publish the child support standards chart
on an annual basis by April first of each year and  in  no  event  later
than  forty-five days following publication of the annual poverty income
guideline for a single person as reported by the federal  department  of
health and human services.