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Assembly Bill A4181

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance

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2019-A4181 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5753
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §131-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10317
2021-2022: S4395
2023-2024: S2512

2019-A4181 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Sets the standards of monthly need for persons and families who receive temporary housing assistance and three meals per day or reside in a shelter for adults that provides three meals per day, shelter for families that provides three meals per day or a public home that provides three meals per day.

2019-A4181 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4181
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the standards of
   monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 131-a of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
   6.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, SOCIAL SERVICES OFFI-
 CIALS SHALL, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION,  PROVIDE
 PUBLIC  ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS AND FAMILIES WHO RECEIVE TEMPORARY HOUSING
 ASSISTANCE AND THREE MEALS PER DAY OR RESIDE IN  A  SHELTER  FOR  ADULTS
 THAT  PROVIDES  THREE  MEALS PER DAY, SHELTER FOR FAMILIES THAT PROVIDES
 THREE MEALS PER DAY, OR A PUBLIC HOME THAT PROVIDES THREE MEALS PER  DAY
 AND DETERMINED TO BE ELIGIBLE BY THE APPLICATION OF THE STANDARD OF NEED
 PRESCRIBED  BY  THE  PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION, LESS
 ANY AVAILABLE INCOME OR RESOURCES WHICH ARE NOT REQUIRED  TO  BE  DISRE-
 GARDED  BY  OTHER  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  CHAPTER, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
 FOLLOWING SCHEDULE:
 
                      NUMBER OF PERSONS IN HOUSEHOLD
           ONE       TWO       THREE     FOUR      FIVE      SIX
           $144      $238      $322      $419      $520      $603
 
 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL ELIGIBLE NEEDY PERSON IN THE HOUSEHOLD  THERE  SHALL
 BE AN ADDITIONAL ALLOWANCE OF EIGHTY-FIVE DOLLARS MONTHLY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April in the year next
 succeeding the year in which it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01052-01-9

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