The purpose of this Administrative Directive is to advise local district Social Services Districts (SSDs) and Support Collection Units (SCUs) of the continuation of the automated cumulative excess support process where collections exceed URA, and of the discontinuance of the excess current support process which provides for the monthly manual distribution of excess current support payments to recipients of TA where such support collected exceeds the TA deficit for that month. This Administrative Directive also provides SSDs with instructions for identifying cases that must be reviewed when the current support collections are greater than the TA deficit for the month.
Further, this Administrative Directive provides information regarding the impact of this change upon the TA program, including:
* The review and processing of cases where the current support collections exceed the TA deficit;
* The review and processing of Transitional Employment Advancement Program (TEAP) cases where the current support collections exceed the TA deficit;
* Expanded use of the CSMS 8649 report;
* The development of a Calculation Worksheet that will assist SSDs in reviewing cases appearing on Section B of the CSMS 8649 report; and
* Use of a new TA payment type code N2 and limited continued use of the TA payment type codes D3 for rest of state (ROS) and 71 for New York City (NYC).
Note: Current support is defined as support collections made in the month in which the support is due. Current support does not include any past-due support or arrears that are collected in a given month. TA deficit is defined as the amount of benefits a household is eligible to receive resulting from the difference between total income and total needs.
In addition, this Administrative Directive provides information regarding the impact of the change upon both the Child Support Enforcement and TA programs with regard to desk reviews of the distribution of support payments.
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