STATE OF NEW YORK
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3101
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to setting public
assistance amounts for individuals receiving enhanced residential care
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 131-o of the
2 social services law, as amended by section 1 of part K of chapter 56 of
3 the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
4 (c) in the case of each individual receiving enhanced residential
5 care, an amount equal to at least:
6 (i) $207.00 for each month beginning on or after January first, two
7 thousand twenty;
8 (ii) $226.00 for each month beginning on or after January first, two
9 thousand twenty-one;
10 (iii) $243.00 for each month beginning on or after January first, two
11 thousand twenty-two;
12 (iv) $262.00 for each month beginning on or after January first, two
13 thousand twenty-three;
14 (v) $281.00 for each month beginning on or after January first, two
15 thousand twenty-four;
16 (vi) $300.00 for each month beginning on or after January first, two
17 thousand twenty-five.
18 § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 209 of the social
19 services law, as amended by section 2 of part K of chapter 56 of the
20 laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
21 (e) [On and after] (i)(1) From January first, two thousand [twenty]
22 twenty-one to March thirty-first, two thousand twenty-one, [(i)] for an
23 eligible individual receiving enhanced residential care, $1,477.00; and
24 [(ii)] (2) for an eligible couple receiving enhanced residential care,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 two times the amount set forth in [subparagraph (i)] clause one of this
2 [paragraph] subparagraph.
3 (ii) (1) From April first, two thousand twenty-one to December thir-
4 ty-first, two thousand twenty-one, for an eligible individual receiving
5 enhanced residential care, $1,496.00; and (2) for an eligible couple
6 receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in
7 clause one of this subparagraph.
8 (iii) (1) From January first, two thousand twenty-two to December
9 thirty-first, two thousand twenty-two, for an eligible individual
10 receiving enhanced residential care, $1,532.00; and (2) for an eligible
11 couple receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set
12 forth in clause one of this subparagraph.
13 (iv) (1) From January first, two thousand twenty-three to December
14 thirty-first, two thousand twenty-three, for an eligible individual
15 receiving enhanced residential care, $1,551.00; and (2) for an eligible
16 couple receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set
17 forth in clause one of this subparagraph.
18 (v) (1) From January first, two thousand twenty-four to December thir-
19 ty-first, two thousand twenty-four, for an eligible individual receiving
20 enhanced residential care, $1,570.00; and (2) for an eligible couple
21 receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in
22 clause one of this subparagraph.
23 § 3. Section 131-a of the social services law is amended by adding a
24 new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
25 6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, social services offi-
26 cials shall, in accordance with the provisions of this section, provide
27 public assistance to persons and families who receive temporary housing
28 assistance and three meals per day or reside in a shelter for adults
29 that provides three meals per day, a shelter for families that provides
30 three meals per day, or a public home that provides three meals per day
31 and determined to be eligible by the application of the standard of need
32 prescribed by the provisions of subdivision two of this section, less
33 any available income or resources which are not required to be disre-
34 garded by other provisions of this chapter, in accordance with the
35 following monthly schedule:
36 Number of Persons in Household
37 OneTwoThreeFourFiveSix
38 $183$291$389$501$618$714
39 For each additional eligible needy person in the household there shall
40 be an additional allowance of ninety-six dollars monthly.
41 § 4. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
42 manner as sections 1 and 2 of part K of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020
43 take effect; provided, however, that section three of this act shall
44 take effect on the first of April in the year next succeeding the year
45 in which it shall have become a law.
