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- Referred to children and families
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BILL NUMBER:S4967
Title of bill
An act to amend the social services law, in relation to the twelve month work exemption for certain parents or relatives providing child care
Purpose
The purpose of this legislation is to allow commissioners in social services to modify the public assistance work requirements in order to increase access to affordable child care for eligible families.
Summary of provisions
This bill would amend subdivision 2 of section 410-x of the social services law.
Currently, New York State allows certain exemptions from work activities for recipients of temporary assistance that are a single-parent head of household. The current work exemption structure allows a single-parent who is caring for a child under the age of one an exemption from work activities for no more than three months for any one child; although a social service official has the authority to extend the exemption for up to 12 months on a case by case basis.
This bill would allow commissioners of social service districts the ability to offer an 12 month for exemption if the district is unable to meet the needs of income eligible working families.
Justification
Counties are required by law to provide child care payments for public assistance recipients if such care is necessary in order for the recipient to participate in mandatory work requirements. The funding source for these county payments is the New York State Child Care Block Grant (NYSCCBG.) The NYSCCBG has suffered serious cuts in the past few years leaving counties with barely enough funds to fulfill the obligation of child care to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families recipients (TANK') and very little, if anything, left over to provide child care subsidies for low income working families.
Most counties are no longer able to serve families up to 200% Federal Poverty Level due to cuts to the child care block grant. In order to deal with the shortage of child care funds, counties have lowered eligibility levels, ceased taking new applications for a period of time or have discontinued the acceptance of new applications all together
Legislative history
None. This is new legislation.
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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