Relates to the standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance; provides for an increased monthly allowance for persons and families residing in shelters.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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113
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. CLEARE, JACKSON, PARKER, SALAZAR, SERRANO -- 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, a social services offi-
4 cial 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 who reside in a shelter for
7 adults that provides three meals per day, or who reside in a shelter for
8 families that provides three meals per day, or who reside in a public
9 home that provides three meals per day, and are determined to be eligi-
10 ble by the application of the standard of need prescribed by the
11 provisions of subdivision two of this section, less any available income
12 or resources which are not required to be disregarded by other
13 provisions of this chapter, in accordance with the following schedule:
14 Number of Persons in Household
15 OneTwoThreeFourFiveSix
16 $366.20$583.00$778.00$1003.40$1237.40$1428.40
17 For each additional eligible needy person in the household there shall
18 be an additional allowance of $195.00 monthly.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
20 the date on 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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