DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The Family Court correctly confirmed the Hearing Examiner's determination that the father willfully violated the support order. The proof before the Hearing Examiner of the father's failure to pay child support as ordered constituted "prima facie evidence of a willful violation" of the support order (Family Ct Act § 454[a]; see Matter of Johnson v. Johnson, 1 A.D.3d 599). The burden of going forward then shifted to the father "to offer some competent, credible evidence of his inability to make the required payments" ( Matter of Powers v. Powers, 86 N.Y.2d 63, 69-70). The father failed to present any credible evidence that he was financially unable to meet his obligation ( see Matter of Johnson v. Johnson, supra; Matter of Commissioner of Social Servs. v. Rosen, 289 A.D.2d 487; Matter of Fallon v. Fallon, 286 A.D.2d 389).
The hearing examiner, who had the opportunity to see and hear the witnesses, rejected the father's claim that his Social Security benefits were his sole source of income and that he was unemployable due to physical disability, and those findings are entitled to great deference on appeal ( see Matter of Gayle v. Counts, 302 A.D.2d 521; Matter of Andre v. Brumaire, 299 A.D.2d 355; Matter of Cattell v. Cattell, 254 A.D.2d 357; Matter of Stone v. Stone, 236 A.D.2d 615).
The father's remaining contentions are without merit.
ALTMAN, J.P., KRAUSMAN, H. MILLER and COZIER, JJ., concur.