Relates to monthly grants and allowances of public assistance; increases the earned income disregard to sixty-seven percent and repeals the one hundred eighty-five percent standard of need for public assistance applicants.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3425
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT, AUBRY, PEOPLES-STOKES, ROBINSON, TOWNS,
CAMARA, CLARK, PERRY, PRETLOW -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK,
JEFFRIES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the
earned income disregard and to repeal subdivision 10 of section 131-a
of such law relating to the earned income cap of the standard of need
for public assistance applicants
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of
2 section 131-a of the social services law, as amended by chapter 246 of
3 the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
4 (iii) [forty-two] sixty-seven percent of the earned income for such
5 month of any recipient in a household containing a dependent child which
6 remains after application of all other subparagraphs of this paragraph;
7 provided, however, that such percentage amount shall be adjusted in June
8 of each year, commencing in nineteen hundred ninety-eight, to reflect
9 changes in the most recently issued poverty guidelines of the United
10 States Bureau of the Census, such that a household of three without
11 special needs, living in a heated apartment in New York city and without
12 unearned income would become ineligible for assistance with gross earn-
13 ings equal to the poverty level in such guidelines; provided, however,
14 that no assistance shall be given to any household with gross earned and
15 unearned income, exclusive of income described in subparagraphs (i) and
16 (vi) of this paragraph, in excess of such poverty level;
17 § 2. Subdivision 10 of section 131-a of the social services law is
18 REPEALED.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
20 have become a law and shall apply to aid determined under public assist-
21 ance programs in months beginning after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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