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Assembly Bill A5515

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Defines closed period of eligibility for purposes of certain supplemental security income and includes such time period in the eligibility requirements of such supplemental security income

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2023-A5515 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1998
Current Committee:
Senate Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§208 & 209, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A7528, S7035
2025-2026: A1817, S7741

2023-A5515 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Defines "closed period of eligibility" for purposes of supplemental security income for aged, blind, and disabled persons; includes such time period in the eligibility requirements of such supplemental security income.

2023-A5515 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5515
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 15, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to defining "closed
   period of eligibility" for purposes of certain  supplemental  security
   income  and including such time period in the eligibility requirements
   of such supplemental security income
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  1,  3,  and 10 of section 208 of the social
 services law, as added by chapter 1080 of the laws of 1974, are  amended
 and a new subdivision 13 is added to read as follows:
   1. "Supplemental security income benefits" shall mean payments made by
 the  [secretary  of  the  federal  department  of  health, education and
 welfare] FEDERAL COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL  SECURITY  to  aged,  blind  and
 disabled persons pursuant to title sixteen of the federal social securi-
 ty act.
   3.  The  "[secretary]  COMMISSIONER"  shall mean the [secretary of the
 federal department of health, education and welfare] FEDERAL COMMISSION-
 ER OF SOCIAL SECURITY.
   10. An "eligible individual" shall mean a person who is OR WAS  eligi-
 ble to receive additional state payments pursuant to section two hundred
 nine of this title.
   13. A "CLOSED PERIOD OF ELIGIBILITY" SHALL REFER TO A DETERMINATION OF
 THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION THAT A PERSON WAS PREVIOUSLY ELIGIBLE
 FOR  SUPPLEMENTAL  SECURITY  INCOME BENEFITS FOR A PERIOD OF TIME IN THE
 PAST, BUT IS NO LONGER ELIGIBLE AT THE TIME SUCH DETERMINATION  IS  MADE
 OR AT THE TIME THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION COMMUNICATES ELIGIBIL-
 ITY TO THE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND DISABILITY ASSISTANCE.
   §  2.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  1 of section 209 of the social
 services law, as added by chapter 1080 of the laws of 1974,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00509-01-3

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