What's happening
This bill allows the exclusion of certain non-recurring income from eligibility calculations for New York's elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage program.
Why it matters
Helps prevent temporary income spikes (such as a one-time IRA withdrawal or previous year's wages for retirees) from disqualifying seniors from pharmaceutical assistance. , ensuring eligibility is based on true ongoing income rather than unusual, non-recurring events.
Gives the Department of Health flexibility to define which types of non-recurring income can be excluded. , allowing policies to adapt over time to new types of financial events or distributions that might otherwise unfairly impact eligibility.
May enable more seniors to qualify for the program or maintain their coverage during years when they receive a lump sum. , such as from retirement accounts or other irregular sources, supporting consistent access to essential medications.
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Exclude One-Time Income for Seniors
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3704
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, RIVERA, CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Aging
AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to policies excluding certain non-recurring items from income for purposes of the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 241 of the elder law is amended to read as follows:
3. "Income" shall mean "household gross income" as defined in the real property tax circuit breaker credit program, pursuant to subparagraph [(C)] (c) of paragraph one of subsection (e) of section six hundred six of the tax law, but only shall include the income of program applicants and spouses and shall exclude the income of other members of the household; provided, however, that the commissioner of health may adopt policies to exclude from income certain non-recurring items that would act to artificially inflate the availability of funds to meet current needs including, but not limited to, a retiree's previous year's wages, and non-recurring distributions from an individual retirement account.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03575-01-7
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