Relates to increasing the enhanced residential care benefit for aged, blind and disabled persons by increasing the rate of the social security income payment for eligible individuals receiving enhanced residential care; provides for a $4.00 per day increase on each of the following five dates: July 1, 2019; April 1, 2020; April 1, 2021; April 1, 2022; and April 1, 2023; for a total increase of $20.00 per day over five years.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6856
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 22, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the
enhanced residential care benefit for aged, blind and disabled persons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 209 of the social
2 services law, as amended by section 2 of part YY of chapter 59 of the
3 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
4 (e) (i) [On and after] (1) From January first, two thousand eighteen
5 to June thirtieth, two thousand nineteen, for an eligible individual
6 receiving enhanced residential care, [$1,444.00] $1,465.00; and [(ii)]
7 (2) for an eligible couple receiving enhanced residential care, two
8 times the amount set forth in clause one of this subparagraph [(i) of
9 this paragraph].
10 (ii) (1) From July first, two thousand nineteen to March thirty-first,
11 two thousand twenty, for an eligible individual receiving enhanced resi-
12 dential care, $1,585.00; and (2) for an eligible couple receiving
13 enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in clause one
14 of this subparagraph.
15 (iii) (1) From April first, two thousand twenty to March thirty-first,
16 two thousand twenty-one, for an eligible individual receiving enhanced
17 residential care, $1,705.00; and (2) for an eligible couple receiving
18 enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in clause one
19 of this subparagraph.
20 (iv) (1) From April first, two thousand twenty-one to March thirty-
21 first, two thousand twenty-two, for an eligible individual receiving
22 enhanced residential care, $1,825.00; and (2) for an eligible couple
23 receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in
24 clause one of this subparagraph.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (v) (1) From April first, two thousand twenty-two to March thirty-
2 first, two thousand twenty-three, for an eligible individual receiving
3 enhanced residential care, $1,945.00; and (2) for an eligible couple
4 receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in
5 clause one of this subparagraph.
6 (vi) (1) From April first, two thousand twenty-three to March thirty-
7 first, two thousand twenty-four, for an eligible individual receiving
8 enhanced residential care, $2,065.00; and (2) for an eligible couple
9 receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in
10 clause one of this subparagraph.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.