Sets the standards of monthly need for persons and families who receive temporary housing assistance and three meals per day or reside in a shelter for adults that provides three meals per day, shelter for families that provides three meals per day or a public home that provides three meals per day.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5753
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 14, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- 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 the standards of
monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 131-a of the social services law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, social services offi-
4 cials shall, in accordance with the provisions of this section, provide
5 public assistance to persons and families who receive temporary housing
6 assistance and three meals per day or reside in a shelter for adults
7 that provides three meals per day, shelter for families that provides
8 three meals per day, or a public home that provides three meals per day
9 and determined to be eligible by the application of the standard of need
10 prescribed by the provisions of subdivision two of this section, less
11 any available income or resources which are not required to be disre-
12 garded by other provisions of this chapter, in accordance with the
13 following schedule:
14 Number of Persons in Household
15 OneTwoThreeFourFiveSix
16 $144$238$322$419$520$603
17 For each additional eligible needy person in the household there shall
18 be an additional allowance of eighty-five dollars monthly.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April in the year next
20 succeeding the year in which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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