S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3546
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 28, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT, AUBRY, PEOPLES-STOKES, ROBINSON, CAMARA,
CLARK, PERRY, PRETLOW -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the
earned income disregard and to repeal subdivision 10 of section 131-a
of such law relating to the earned income cap of the standard of need
for public assistance applicants
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of
section 131-a of the social services law, as amended by chapter 246 of
the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
(iii) [forty-two] SIXTY-SEVEN percent of the earned income for such
month of any recipient in a household containing a dependent child which
remains after application of all other subparagraphs of this paragraph;
provided, however, that such percentage amount shall be adjusted in June
of each year, commencing in nineteen hundred ninety-eight, to reflect
changes in the most recently issued poverty guidelines of the United
States Bureau of the Census, such that a household of three without
special needs, living in a heated apartment in New York city and without
unearned income would become ineligible for assistance with gross earn-
ings equal to the poverty level in such guidelines; provided, however,
that no assistance shall be given to any household with gross earned and
unearned income, exclusive of income described in subparagraphs (i) and
(vi) of this paragraph, in excess of such poverty level;
S 2. Subdivision 10 of section 131-a of the social services law is
REPEALED.
S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law and shall apply to aid determined under public assist-
ance programs in months beginning after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00786-01-3