New York Laws
Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare
21 - Welfare Management System.

(b) Expenditures by a social services district for data entry
operators determined necessary by the department during the period of
conversion to full operation of the welfare management system for such
district shall be subject to reimbursement by the state in accordance
with section one hundred fifty-three of this chapter to the extent of
one hundred percentum of such expenditures after first deducting
therefrom any federal funds properly received or to be received on
account of such expenditures.
(c) Expenditures by a social services district other than those set
forth in this section shall be subject to state reimbursement as
administrative costs in accordance with section one hundred fifty-three
of this chapter to the extent of fifty percentum thereof, after first
deducting therefrom any federal funds properly received or to be
received on account of such expenditures.
(d) The department is hereby authorized to enter into written
agreements, subject to the approval of the director of the budget, with
not more than three social services districts by which such districts
agree to undertake additional administrative functions relating to
design, development and testing of the welfare management system,
subject to one hundred percent state reimbursement for administrative
costs attributable to such functions, after first deducting therefrom
any federal funds properly received or to be received on account of such
expenditures.
8. The department may enter into the case file of each applicant for
or recipient of benefits under the programs of food stamps, aid to

dependent children, home relief, veteran assistance, emergency
assistance to adults, or medical assistance for whom a case file has
been established on the welfare management system information it
receives from the appropriate governmental agency concerning a client
who has applied for or has been determined to be eligible for workers'
compensation benefits, unemployment insurance benefits, and benefits
being paid pursuant to titles two and sixteen of the federal social
security act (including supplemental state payments). The department may
rebudget any case for which it makes an entry where the information
received indicates that rebudgeting is appropriate. The department
shall immediately notify the appropriate social services district that
an applicant or recipient's case has been rebudgeted or of any other
direct entry of information into a case file. A social services
district shall not be held responsible for any costs incurred as a
result of data erroneously entered by the department into the welfare
management system.