What's happening
This bill requires social services to provide specified monthly public assistance amounts for individuals and families in temporary or shelter housing receiving three meals per day.
Why it matters
Establishes clear, predictable cash assistance amounts. for individuals and families in shelters or temporary housing who receive three meals daily, making budgeting and program planning more straightforward for both recipients and agencies.
Aims to address gaps in current support. by setting a specific monthly standard of need for those whose food is already provided, ensuring assistance reflects their remaining financial needs (like transportation, clothing, or hygiene products).
Creates more equitable treatment across household sizes. by introducing a fixed additional allowance ($85/month) for each extra eligible person, which helps larger families avoid being under-resourced compared to smaller households.
Could influence the design and operation of shelter and public assistance programs. by tying benefit levels to the kind of services (i.e., meal provision) available, possibly incentivizing changes in how shelters and social service agencies provide care.
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Raise Public Assistance Levels
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- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to social services
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STATE OF NEW YORK
10317
IN ASSEMBLY
April 10, 2018
Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred 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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 131-a of the social services law is amended by adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, social services officials shall, in accordance with the provisions of this section, provide public assistance to 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 and determined to be eligible by the application of the standard of need prescribed by the provisions of subdivision two of this section, less any available income or resources which are not required to be disregarded by other provisions of this chapter, in accordance with the following schedule:
Number of Person in Household
One Two Three Four Five Six
$144 $238 $322 $419 $520 $603
For each additional eligible needy person in the household there shall be an additional allowance of eighty-five dollars monthly.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April in the year next 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.
LBD15124-03-8
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