Bill Text: NY S00113 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S00113 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00113-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           113

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        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      One         Two         Three       Four        Five        Six
    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.
                                                                   LBD00634-01-5