Provides that a social services official may not recover assistance properly paid as permitted where a recipient or former recipient of such assistance was required to participate in a work experience program without first crediting against such recovery the number of hours that such person actually participated in a work experience program multiplied by the higher of the applicable state or federal minimum wage.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4655
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 3, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. TITUS, HOOPER, JAFFEE, COOK, GOTTFRIED, BUCHWALD,
CRESPO, ROSENTHAL, M. G. MILLER, RIVERA, CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. GLICK, MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to work experience
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 336-c of the social services law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
3 5. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a social
4 services official may not recover public assistance properly paid as
5 permitted under sections one hundred four, one hundred four-b, one
6 hundred six, one hundred thirty-one-r and subdivision three of section
7 one hundred fifty-eight of this chapter or any other provision of this
8 title, where a recipient or former recipient of such assistance was
9 required to participate in a work experience program under this section,
10 without first crediting against such recovery the number of hours that
11 such person actually participated in a work experience program multi-
12 plied by the higher of the applicable state or federal minimum wage.
13 § 2. Effective immediately, the office of temporary and disability
14 assistance shall promulgate rules and regulations, and conduct any
15 requisite training necessary for the implementation of this act.
16 § 3. 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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