S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4058
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 31, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to allowing for the
denial, suspension or discontinuance of public assistance or care
where a person does not participate in three consecutive scheduled
interviews with a social services official
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 134-a of the social services law,
as amended by chapter 144 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
follows:
3. The social services official shall require that persons applying
for or receiving public assistance and care be interviewed personally at
a time and in a manner provided by the regulations of the department,
and the social services official may provide the option of a phone
interview or other digital means for such interview at the request of
the applicant or recipient. IN THE EVENT A PERSON APPLYING FOR OR
RECEIVING PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND CARE WHO IS REQUIRED TO BE INTERVIEWED
BY A SOCIAL SERVICES OFFICIAL DOES NOT PARTICIPATE IN THREE CONSECUTIVE
SCHEDULED INTERVIEWS, THE SOCIAL SERVICES OFFICIAL MAY DENY, SUSPEND OR
DISCONTINUE PUBLIC ASSISTANCE OR CARE UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE PERSON
APPLYING FOR OR RECEIVING PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND CARE PARTICIPATES IN AN
INTERVIEW.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06283-01-5
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