Exempts income earned by a head of household or any person in the household from certain job training or adult education programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2572
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. DAVILA, ROSENTHAL, STIRPE, R. CARROLL, ZINERMAN,
FORREST, LUCAS, JONES, CONRAD, BRONSON -- 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 from certain job training or adult education
programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of section 131-a of the
2 social services law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xiv) to
3 read as follows:
4 (xiv) all of the income of a head of household or any person in the
5 household, who is receiving such aid or for whom an application for such
6 aid has been made, which is derived from participation in a program
7 carried out under the federal workforce innovation and opportunity act
8 (P.L. 113-128) or any successor act or public assistance employment,
9 training or skills certification program, provided, however, that in the
10 case of earned income such disregard must be applied for at least, but
11 no longer than, six consecutive months following the last day of the
12 month in which such person commences employment after completing a qual-
13 ifying job training or adult education program.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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