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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1120
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 8, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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 Nothing in this subdivision shall alter the rules governing and defi-
14 nition of work experience programs as enumerated in subdivisions one,
15 two, three and four of this section. This subdivision shall apply only
16 to the number of hours of participation in the work experience program
17 and shall not apply to any other activity for which a social services
18 district has required a recipient or former recipient to participate in,
19 including but not limited to substance abuse treatment or rehabili-
20 tation, job search, and vocational or remedial education activities.
21 § 2. Effective immediately, the office of temporary and disability
22 assistance shall promulgate rules and regulations, and conduct any
23 requisite training necessary for the implementation of this act.
24 § 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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