Bill Text: NY S04042 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to increasing the enhanced residential care benefit for aged, blind and disabled persons by increasing the rate of the social security income payment for eligible individuals receiving enhanced residential care; provides for a $4.00 per day increase on each of the following five dates: July 1, 2019; April 1, 2020; April 1, 2021; April 1, 2022; and April 1, 2023; for a total increase of $20.00 per day over five years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S04042 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04042-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4042--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 26, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services -- commit-
          tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and  recom-
          mitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the
          enhanced residential care benefit for aged, blind and disabled persons
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 209 of the social
     2  services  law,  as  amended by section 2 of part YY of chapter 59 of the
     3  laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (e) (i) [On and after] (1) From January first, two  thousand  eighteen
     5  to  June  thirtieth,  two  thousand nineteen, for an eligible individual
     6  receiving enhanced residential care, [$1,444.00] $1,465.00;  and  [(ii)]
     7  (2)  for  an  eligible  couple  receiving enhanced residential care, two
     8  times the amount set forth in clause one of this  subparagraph  [(i)  of
     9  this paragraph].
    10    (ii) (1) From July first, two thousand nineteen to March thirty-first,
    11  two thousand twenty, for an eligible individual receiving enhanced resi-
    12  dential  care,  $1,585.00;  and  (2)  for  an  eligible couple receiving
    13  enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in clause  one
    14  of this subparagraph.
    15    (iii) (1) From April first, two thousand twenty to March thirty-first,
    16  two  thousand  twenty-one, for an eligible individual receiving enhanced
    17  residential care, $1,705.00; and (2) for an  eligible  couple  receiving
    18  enhanced  residential care, two times the amount set forth in clause one
    19  of this subparagraph.
    20    (iv) (1) From April first, two thousand twenty-one  to  March  thirty-
    21  first,  two  thousand  twenty-two,  for an eligible individual receiving
    22  enhanced residential care, $1,825.00; and (2)  for  an  eligible  couple
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09423-02-9

        S. 4042--A                          2
     1  receiving  enhanced  residential care, two times the amount set forth in
     2  clause one of this subparagraph.
     3    (v)  (1)  From  April  first, two thousand twenty-two to March thirty-
     4  first, two thousand twenty-three, for an eligible  individual  receiving
     5  enhanced  residential  care,  $1,945.00;  and (2) for an eligible couple
     6  receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set  forth  in
     7  clause one of this subparagraph.
     8    (vi)  (1) From April first, two thousand twenty-three to March thirty-
     9  first, two thousand twenty-four, for an  eligible  individual  receiving
    10  enhanced  residential  care,  $2,065.00;  and (2) for an eligible couple
    11  receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set  forth  in
    12  clause one of this subparagraph.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.
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