What's happening
This bill requires social services to provide specific monthly public assistance amounts for households in shelters or temporary housing that supply three meals per day.
Why it matters
Establishes clear, fixed monthly assistance amounts. for households in shelters or temporary housing that provide three meals per day, offering predictable financial support for individuals and families in these settings.
Creates a tiered benefit structure. based on household size, ensuring that larger families receive higher assistance, which more accurately reflects their increased costs and needs.
Acknowledges the unique circumstances. of people in institutional settings (such as shelters or public homes that provide meals), differentiating their benefit calculations from those of other public assistance recipients.
May incentivize shelters and temporary housing providers. to offer three meals per day, as this is now directly linked to the benefit structure for residents, potentially improving nutrition and stability for vulnerable populations.
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Update Public Assistance Rates
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Enacting clause stricken
- Referred to ways and means
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to social services
Companion bill
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Raise Public Assistance Allowances
In Senate Committee · Social Services · Sponsor Jessica Ramos
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4181
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 1, 2019
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 Persons 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.
LBD01052-01-9
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