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Assembly Bill A8967

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to exempting income earned by persons under the age of 24 from certain workforce development programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs

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2019-A8967 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7174
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §131-a, Soc Serv L (as proposed in S.6443 & A.6753-A)

2019-A8967 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to exempting income earned by persons under the age of 24 from certain workforce development programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs.

2019-A8967 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8967
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 6, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to exempting income
   earned by persons under the age of twenty-four from certain  workforce
   development programs from the determination of need for public assist-
   ance programs

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (vii) of paragraph (a)  of  subdivision  8  of
 section 131-a of the social services law, as amended by a chapter of the
 laws  of  2019  amending  the  social services law relating to exempting
 income earned by persons under the age of twenty-four from certain work-
 force development programs from the determination  of  need  for  public
 assistance programs, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.6443 and
 A.6753-A,  is  amended,  and a new subparagraph (ix) is added to read as
 follows:
   (vii) all of the income of a dependent child living with a  parent  or
 other  caretaker  relative,  who  is  receiving  such aid or for whom an
 application for such aid has been made, which is  derived  from  partic-
 ipation  in  [(i) the summer youth employment program, provided however,
 that in the case of earned income such disregard must be applied for  at
 least, but no longer than the length of such program; or (ii)] a program
 carried out under the federal job training partnership act (P.L. 97-300)
 or  any  successor  act,  provided,  however, that in the case of earned
 income such disregard must be applied for at least, but no longer  than,
 six  months  per calendar year for each such child. [Provided however, a
 local social services district may exempt all the income of an  individ-
 ual,  up  to the age of twenty-four, which is derived from their partic-
 ipation in the summer  youth  employment  program,  in  accordance  with
 clause (i) of this subparagraph;]
   (IX)  ALL OF THE INCOME DERIVED FROM PARTICIPATION IN THE SUMMER YOUTH
 EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM, PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT SUCH INCOME SHALL  BE  EXEMPT
 ONLY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS NOT OLDER THAN AGE TWENTY-FOUR AT THE TIME
 OF  ENROLLMENT IN THE SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM AND SUCH DISREGARD
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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