NY State Senate Bill 2021-S4400

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 05, 2022	referred to social services
Feb 04, 2021	referred to social services

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2021-S4400 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Social Services
Law Section:: Social Services Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §209, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S7743
2019-2020: S2601

2021-S4400 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides supplemental security income for eligible individuals receiving enhanced residential care.

2021-S4400 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S4400

SPONSOR: SERINO
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the social services law, in relation to supplemental
security income for eligible individuals receiving enhanced residential
care

 
PURPOSE:

To increase the Social Security Income Rate adult care facilities
receive in order to ensure that these services continue to be available
to low income SSI recipients

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Amends paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 209 of the
social services law to increase the rate of SSI payments for eligible
individuals receiving enhanced residential care in $4.00 per day incre-
ments, the first of which takes place April 1, 2021, followed by

increases on April 1 of 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, for a total increase
of $20.00 per day.

Section 2: Provides an effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Many low income elderly and disabled individuals in New York live in
adult care facilities which are paid through SSI. In the last twenty
years, adult care facilities have had one rate increase in 2007, which
brought them to the current $41.00 per day. There has been no State COLA
during this period and costs to these facilities of providing housing,
care and services have continued to go up. For example, since 2007
health insurance costs have gone up 42% and workers' compensation costs
are up 13%, not to mention real estate taxes.

The stagnant rate, coupled with rising costs, has resulted in closures
of SSI facilities. For every displaced SSI recipient who ends up in a
nursing home, the daily cost of housing and care raises from $41/day to
$150-$250/day in Medicaid costs depending upon the area of the state.
During a recent 5-year span, 20 facilities closed their doors. In 2014
alone, seven facilities closed. These closures are hard on individuals
who lose their homes and owners who lose their businesses, but they are
also costly for the state. For example, in December 2014 an adult care
facility closed in Onondaga County and eight of the SSI residents moved
into 'hither levels of care, resulting in the state paying approximately
$325,000 more for these eight low income seniors. One leading upstate
provider recently closed three facilities over an 8-month period result-
ing in 88 low-income SSI recipients having to move to other settings.

With the minimum wage increase, costs to these facilities will continue
to rise and more will be forced to close. By providing incremental
increases in the daily rate to these facilities over a four-year period,
this legislation will help keep adult care facilities operational, low
income seniors in the community, and avoid higher Medicaid costs which
result when residents are displaced.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2020: S.2601A, Referred to Social Services

2019: 5.2601, Reported and Committed to Finance

2018: S.7743, Passed Senate

2017: 5.6732, Veto No. 241

2016: S.7333, Passed Senate

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Savings to the state as low income elderly and disabled individuals are
maintained in lower cost care settings which do not rely on Medicaid
funding.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect April 1, 2021.

2021-S4400 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4400
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. SERINO, GOUNARDES, HELMING, SAVINO -- read twice and
   ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
   Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law,  in  relation  to  supplemental
   security  income  for eligible individuals receiving enhanced residen-
   tial care

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 209 of the social
 services  law,  as  amended  by section 2 of part K of chapter 56 of the
 laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (e) [On and after] (I)(1) FROM January  first,  two  thousand  twenty,
 [(i)]  for  an  eligible individual receiving enhanced residential care,
 $1,477.00; and [(ii)] (2) for  an  eligible  couple  receiving  enhanced
 residential care, two times the amount set forth in [subparagraph (i) of
 this paragraph] CLAUSE ONE OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   (II)  (1)  FROM  APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE TO MARCH THIRTY-
 FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO, FOR  AN  ELIGIBLE  INDIVIDUAL  RECEIVING
 ENHANCED  RESIDENTIAL  CARE,  $1,597.00;  AND (2) FOR AN ELIGIBLE COUPLE
 RECEIVING ENHANCED RESIDENTIAL CARE, TWO TIMES THE AMOUNT SET  FORTH  IN
 CLAUSE ONE OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   (III)  (1)  FROM APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO TO MARCH THIRTY-
 FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE, FOR AN ELIGIBLE  INDIVIDUAL  RECEIVING
 ENHANCED  RESIDENTIAL  CARE,  $1,717.00;  AND (2) FOR AN ELIGIBLE COUPLE
 RECEIVING ENHANCED RESIDENTIAL CARE, TWO TIMES THE AMOUNT SET  FORTH  IN
 CLAUSE ONE OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   (IV)  (1) FROM APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE TO MARCH THIRTY-
 FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR, FOR AN  ELIGIBLE  INDIVIDUAL  RECEIVING
 ENHANCED  RESIDENTIAL  CARE,  $1,837.00;  AND (2) FOR AN ELIGIBLE COUPLE
 RECEIVING ENHANCED RESIDENTIAL CARE, TWO TIMES THE AMOUNT SET  FORTH  IN
 CLAUSE ONE OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD07849-02-1

 S. 4400                             2
 
   (V)  (1)  FROM  APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR TO MARCH THIRTY-
 FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE, FOR AN  ELIGIBLE  INDIVIDUAL  RECEIVING
 ENHANCED  RESIDENTIAL  CARE,  $1,957.00;  AND (2) FOR AN ELIGIBLE COUPLE
 RECEIVING ENHANCED RESIDENTIAL CARE, TWO TIMES THE AMOUNT SET  FORTH  IN
 CLAUSE ONE OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   (VI)  (1)  FROM  APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE AND THEREAFTER,
 FOR  AN  ELIGIBLE  INDIVIDUAL  RECEIVING  ENHANCED   RESIDENTIAL   CARE,
 $2,077.00; AND (2) FOR AN ELIGIBLE COUPLE RECEIVING ENHANCED RESIDENTIAL
 CARE, TWO TIMES THE AMOUNT SET FORTH IN CLAUSE ONE OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2021.

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Susan Serino

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Andrew Gounardes

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Diane J. Savino

2021-S4400 (ACTIVE) - Details

2021-S4400 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2021-S4400 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4400 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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