Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
On December 15, 1988, the parties entered into a stipulation whereby, inter alia, the defendant father agreed to pay child support of $50 per week for each of his two children. This obligation, however, was subject to several provisions relating to the anticipated payment of Social Security disability benefits to the children as a result of the defendant's disability. The stipulation provided that the plaintiff mother would accept these Social Security disability benefits on behalf of the children in lieu of the defendant's child support payments, and that the defendant would be responsible for any deficit, i.e., if the benefits amounted to less than $5,200 per year. The agreement further provided that if the plaintiff received a lump sum payment for retroactive benefits on behalf of the children, she was to reimburse the defendant for the child support payments made by him for the period subsumed by the retroactive payment. The parties were divorced by a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, entered February 15, 1989, and the stipulation was incorporated, but not merged, into the judgment.
The Social Security Administration (hereinafter the SSA) thereafter approved the application for benefits on behalf of the children. In October of 1991, the SSA remitted a lump sum check to the plaintiff, as representative payee, of $14,200 to cover "past benefits due", and has, since December of 1991, made monthly payments for the children totalling $532 per month.
The defendant moved for enforcement of the stipulation after repeated requests to the plaintiff for compliance proved fruitless. The plaintiff countered that the provisions in question were illegal and, accordingly, unenforceable. In addition, the plaintiff cross-moved for an upward modification of child support. The Supreme Court granted the defendant's request for enforcement of the child support provisions relating to the Social Security payments, rejected the plaintiff's claim of illegality, and concluded that the parties' unequivocal stipulation should govern. The court further denied the plaintiff's cross motion for additional support. We affirm.
The principle that Social Security disability payments received by a child by virtue of the child's parent's disability may be credited toward the disabled parent's child support obligation was expressed by this Court in Passaro v Passaro ( 92 A.D.2d 861, 863).
More recently, in Matter of Graby v Graby ( 196 A.D.2d 128), the Appellate Division, Fourth Department reexamined the issue presented and considered the continued validity of Passaro in light of the guidelines set forth in this State's Child Support Standards Act (see, Family Ct Act § 413), promulgated in compliance with the Federal Family Support Act of 1988 (see, 42 U.S.C. § 667). The Court determined that "Social Security disability benefits received by a child as a result of a noncustodial parent's disability shall be credited against the noncustodial parent's child support obligation" (Matter of Graby v Graby, supra, at 135). We agree with the Fourth Department's reasoning and conclusion, and, accordingly, affirm the portion of the order appealed from which enforced the provisions of the otherwise uncontroverted stipulation (see, Zwirn v Zwirn, 153 A.D.2d 854).
The Supreme Court properly rejected the plaintiff's request for upward modification of child support, as the plaintiff failed to demonstrate "an unanticipated and unreasonable change in circumstances, or that the agreement entered into by the parties was unfair when entered into (see, Matter of Boden v Boden, 42 N.Y.2d 210), or that the child[ren] w[ere] not being adequately supported (see, Matter of Brescia v Fitts, 56 N.Y.2d 132)" (Brevetti v Brevetti, 182 A.D.2d 606, 607).
The possibility that the plaintiff will lose her part-time teaching position does not constitute an unanticipated change in circumstances until it becomes clear that the position, if indeed lost, cannot be replaced with another (see, Matter of Laitman v Laitman, 88 A.D.2d 954). Moreover, although the plaintiff claims that the defendant's income had increased since 1989, "the courts generally do not modify an agreement with respect to child support based merely upon a parent's increased income" (Brevetti v Brevetti, supra, at 608; see, Matter of Bernstein v Goldman, 180 A.D.2d 735). Thompson, J.P., Copertino, Pizzuto and Santucci, JJ., concur.