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2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-A - Establishment of Paternity and Enforcement of Support › 111-V - Confidentiality, Integrity, and Security of Information.

§  111-v. Confidentiality, integrity, and security of information.  1.
The department, in consultation with appropriate agencies including  but
not  limited to the New York state office for the prevention of domestic
violence, shall by regulation prescribe and implement safeguards on  the
confidentiality,  integrity,  accuracy,  access,  and  the  use  of  all
confidential information and other data handled or maintained, including
data obtained pursuant to section one hundred eleven-o of  this  article
and  including  such  information  and  data maintained in the automated
child support enforcement system. Such information  and  data  shall  be
maintained  in  a  confidential  manner  designed to protect the privacy
rights of the parties and shall not be disclosed except for the  purpose
of,  and  to the extent necessary to, establish paternity, or establish,
modify or enforce an order of support.
2. These safeguards shall include provisions for the following:
(a) Policies restricting access to  and  sharing  of  information  and
data, including:
(1)  safeguards  against unauthorized use or disclosure of information
relating to procedures or actions to establish paternity or to establish
or enforce support;
(2) prohibitions against the release of information on the whereabouts
of one party to another party against whom an order of  protection  with
respect to the former party has been entered; and
(3) prohibitions against the release of information on the whereabouts
of  one  party  to another party if the department has reason to believe
that the release of the  information  may  result  in  the  physical  or
emotional harm to the former party.
(b) Systems controls to ensure strict adherence to policies.
(c) Monitoring of access to and use of the automated system to prevent
unauthorized access or use.
(d)  Training  in  security  procedures for all staff with access, and
provisions of information regarding these requirements and penalties.
(e) Administrative penalties for unauthorized access,  disclosure,  or
use of confidential data.
3.  If  any  person discloses confidential information in violation of
this section, any individual who incurs damages due  to  the  disclosure
may recover such damages in a civil action.
4.  Any  person  who  willfully releases or permits the release of any
confidential information obtained pursuant to this title to  persons  or
agencies  not  authorized  by  this  title  or  regulations  promulgated
thereunder to receive it shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
5. The safeguards established pursuant to this section shall apply  to
staff  of  the  department,  local  social  services  districts, and any
contractor.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 6-B - Services for Enforcement of Support Provided by the Department of Social Services › 111-Y - Spousal Support; Crediting of Overpayments of Tax to Past-Due Support.

§ 111-y. Spousal support; crediting of overpayments of tax to past-due
support.  1.  The department shall provide services for the crediting of
overpayments of tax to past-due support, pursuant to section one hundred
seventy-one-c of the tax law, which is owed to  any  current  or  former
spouse  entitled  to  enforce  an  order  of support, who applies to the
department for such services, if such spouse is not eligible to  receive
services  pursuant  to title six-A of this article. For purposes of this
section, "order of support" means any final order, decree or judgment in
a matrimonial action or family court proceeding, or any foreign  support
order, decree or judgment which is registered pursuant to article 5-B of
the  family court act which requires the payment of alimony, maintenance
or support.
2. (a) An applicant for services under this section shall provide  the
department with the following:
(i)  a  certified transcript of a money judgment for a sum certain for
arrears accrued under an order of support;
(ii) a sworn statement that the order of support is no longer  subject
to  appellate  judicial review and that the sum set forth as uncollected
on the judgment is accurate;
(iii) the name and address of the applicant; and
(iv) the name, last known address and social security  number  of  the
person  or  entity  owning  past-due support against whom a judgment has
been obtained.
(b) If an application for services is rejected by the department,  the
department  shall inform the applicant in writing of the reason for such
rejection.
3. An applicant for services under this section shall  receive  a  pro
rata  share  of  the overpayment of tax, based on the amount of past-due
support owed to such applicant as certified to the tax commission by the
department pursuant to section one hundred seventy-one-c of the tax law,
in cases where the individual, estate or trust owing past-due support to
such applicant owes past-due support to other  persons  or  entities  so
certified to the tax commission by the department.
4.  The  department shall promulgate such regulations as are necessary
to carry out the provisions of this section, including regulations as to
the date by which an applicant for services  under  this  section  shall
provide  the  department with the information and documentation required
in subdivision two of this section.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 7 - Local Personnel Training; Research and Demonstration Projects; Special State Reimbursement › 112 - Local Personnel Training.

§  112.  Local personnel training.  Each public welfare district shall
  make provision, with the assistance and cooperation of  the  department,
  for  suitable  training  of  employees of its welfare department.   Such
  provision shall include such of the  following  as  the  department  may
  approve  or require for such district:  employment of qualified training
  directors and/or teachers; the granting of scholarships and fellowships;
  continuing salaries of employees while undergoing training, pursuant  to
  section   thirty;   contracting  with  approved  schools,  colleges  and
  universities for  courses  of  instruction  and/or  classes  or  special
  classes; sponsoring, conducting and participating in seminars, workshops
  and meetings and allowing or requiring attendance of selected employees;
  payment of stipends and expenses, within prescribed limits, of employees
  undergoing training.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 7 - Local Personnel Training; Research and Demonstration Projects; Special State Reimbursement › 113 - Participation in Research and Demonstration Projects.

§  113.  Participation in research and demonstration projects.  Public
  welfare districts are authorized to sponsor, conduct and participate  in
  the  operation  of  such  research  and  demonstration  projects  as the
  department may approve, for  the  purpose  of  reducing  dependency  and
  eliminating   the  causes  thereof.    Public  welfare  districts  shall
  cooperate with the department in the conduct of such  projects  whenever
  the   department   shall  request  or  require  such  participation  and
  cooperation.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 7 - Local Personnel Training; Research and Demonstration Projects; Special State Reimbursement › 114 - Special State Reimbursement.

§  114.    Special state reimbursement.  Any inconsistent provision of
sections one hundred  fifty-three,  two  hundred  fifty-seven  or  other
provisions  of this chapter notwithstanding, expenditures made by public
welfare districts for salaries of qualified training directors  pursuant
to  section  one  hundred  twelve and for salaries of employees while on
educational leave pursuant to section  thirty  and  one  hundred  twelve
shall, if approved by the department, be subject to reimbursement by the
state in accordance with the regulations of the department as follows:
there shall be paid to each such district
(a)    the amount of federal funds, if any, properly received or to be
received on account of such expenditures;
(b)  the full amount expended for such purposes, after first deducting
therefrom any federal funds properly  received  or  to  be  received  on
account thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 7 - Local Personnel Training; Research and Demonstration Projects; Special State Reimbursement › 115 - Training and Utilization of Volunteers.

§  115.    Training  and  utilization  of volunteers.   Subject to the
approval of the department, public welfare districts are  authorized  to
sponsor   and   conduct  programs  for  the  recruitment,  training  and
utilization of volunteers to assist welfare district  employees  in  the
performance  of  office  duties  and  to  aid  in performing services in
welfare districts including but not limited to the following:
(a)  friendly visiting of the indigent aged;
(b)  finding homes for foster children;
(c)   escorting and  transporting  recipients  to  clinics  and  other
destinations;
(d)  aiding in location of improved housing;
(e)    teaching  homemaking skills and aiding in budgeting and care of
the household;
(f)  providing tutoring and other educational aid; and
(g)   giving information,  screening  requests  and  performing  other
services in waiting rooms of welfare centers.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 7-B - Chief Executive Officers of Local Welfare Departments: Appointment › 116 - Chief Executive Officers of Local Welfare Departments; Qualifications; Appointment and Removal; Term.

§  116.    Chief  executive  officers  of  local  welfare departments;
qualifications; appointment and removal; term.   1.    Any  inconsistent
provision  of  law, notwithstanding, the position of the chief executive
officer of a county or city social services department, whether referred
to as commissioner or by other title, shall be  in  the  non-competitive
class  of  the civil service, except any which is or may hereafter be in
the  competitive  class.    Appointments  to  such  positions   in   the
non-competitive class shall be for terms of five years and shall be made
by  the  appropriate county or city body or officer.  However, no person
may be appointed to or serve in any such position who does not meet  the
minimum  qualifications  required  therefor by the state commissioner of
social services pursuant to section seventeen.
2.   Any inconsistent provision of law,  general,  special  or  local,
notwithstanding,  the chief executive officer of a county or city social
services department shall also be subject  to  removal  or  sanction  in
accordance with the provisions of section thirty-four of this chapter.
3.  As used in subdivision one "the appropriate county or city body or
officer" shall mean and refer:
(a)    in  the  case of a county, to the board of supervisors thereof,
except when the county has a county executive, county president,  county
manager  or  other  officer  or  board  authorized  to  appoint heads of
administrative departments or the chief executive officer of the  social
services  department,  in  which  case  it  shall  mean  such executive,
president, manager, other officer or board;
(b)  in the case of a city, to the mayor, manager, other  officer,  or
the  board  having  authority  to  appoint department heads or the chief
executive officer of the social services department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 4 - Residence and Removal › 118 - Qualification on Residence.

§  118.  Qualification on residence. The continuous residence required
to acquire state residence or to establish  liability  for  payment  for
hospital or other institutional care shall not include any period during
which the person was (a) a patient in a hospital, or
(b)  an  incarcerated  individual  of  any  public  institution or any
incorporated private institution, or
(c) if a child under the age of twenty-one years, in a  boarding  home
under the care of an authorized agency, or
(d) residing on any military reservation.
If,  however,  the periods of residence immediately prior and subsequent
to the period specified in a, b, c,  or  d,  shall  together  equal  the
required  period  of  residence, such person shall be deemed to have had
the required continuous residence.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 4 - Residence and Removal › 118-C - Family Court Cases; State Charges.

§  118-c.  Family court cases; state charges. In the event a child who
  is residing on any Native  American  reservation  within  the  state  is
  committed   or  placed  by  a  court  of  competent  jurisdiction  as  a
  delinquent, abused, neglected, or abandoned child, or person in need  of
  supervision,  or  upon  any  ground  specified  in section three hundred
  eighty-four-b of this chapter, the state,  shall  reimburse  the  social
  services  district  from which the child was committed for the full cost
  of care and maintenance of the child.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 4 - Residence and Removal › 121 - Removal of Persons to Another State or Country.

§  121.  Removal  of persons to another state or country.  1. When any
  person who is cared for at the expense of the state  or  of  any  public
  welfare  district has settlement or residence or otherwise belongs to or
  has legally responsible relatives able or friends willing  to  undertake
  the  obligations to support him or to aid in supporting him in any other
  state or country, the department may furnish him with transportation  to
  such  state  or  country,  provided, in its judgment the interest of the
  state and the welfare of such person will be thereby promoted.
2. The expense of such removal shall be paid from the  state  treasury
  on  the  audit  and  warrant  of  the comptroller pursuant to a verified
  account  submitted  by  the  department  and  in  accordance  with   the
  provisions  of  paragraph  d  of  subdivision one of section one hundred
  fifty-three of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-AAA - Availability of Adverse Childhood Experiences Services.

§  131-aaa.  Availability  of  adverse childhood experiences services.
  Each local social services district shall be required to make  available
  to  applicants  and  recipients  of  public assistance who are a parent,
  guardian,  custodian  or  otherwise  responsible  for  a  child's  care,
  educational  materials  developed pursuant to subdivision two of section
  three hundred seventy-c of this article to educate  them  about  adverse
  childhood  experiences,  the  importance  of  protective factors and the
  availability of services for children at  risk  for  or  suffering  from
  adverse  childhood  experiences.  The  educational materials may be made
  available electronically and shall be offered at the time of application
  and recertification.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-B - Fees for Services.

§    131-b.    Fees  for  services.    If  and  only to the extent the
  imposition of a fee is required by federal law and regulation to  insure
  continued  full  federal financial participation in the state's plan for
  services under applicable federal law and  regulations,  the  department
  shall, by regulation, require a local social services district to impose
  a  fee  for any service made available by that district to an individual
  who is not a recipient of public assistance  and  care.    This  section
  shall  not  apply  to  fees for day care services as authorized by title
  five of article six of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-BB - Family Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement Program.

§  131-bb.  Family  homelessness  and  eviction  prevention supplement
  program. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, for
  a local social services district with a population of  five  million  or
  more,  the  commissioner  shall  designate  such  local  social services
  district to make vouchers  available  to  eligible  families  under  the
  family   homelessness   and  eviction  prevention  supplement  ("FHEPS")
  program, and to  administer  the  program  in  accordance  with  a  plan
  approved pursuant to 18 N.Y.C.R.R. § 352.3(a)(3), provided however, that
  the  maximum  rent  for  such vouchers shall be set at the United States
  department of housing and urban development's fair  market  rent  level.
  The  state  shall  reimburse  the  local  social  services  district for
  payments made under the FHEPS program in a manner consistent with  title
  two of this article.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-C - Inclusion of Parents and Siblings of a Minor in the Public Assistance Household.

§  131-c.  Inclusion  of parents and siblings of a minor in the public
  assistance household. 1. For the purposes of determining eligibility for
  and the amount of  assistance  payable,  the  social  services  district
  shall,  when  a  minor  is  named as an applicant for public assistance,
  require that his or her parents and  minor  brothers  and  sisters  also
  apply  for  assistance  and be included in the household for purposes of
  determining eligibility and grant amounts, if such individuals reside in
  the same dwelling unit as the minor applying for assistance. Any  income
  of  or  available  for  such  parents, brothers and sisters which is not
  disregarded under subdivision eight of section one hundred  thirty-one-a
  of  this  article,  shall be considered available to such household. The
  provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to  individuals  who  are
  recipients   of   federal   supplemental  security  income  benefits  or
  additional state payments pursuant to this chapter,  or  to  individuals
  whose relationship to the minor is that of stepbrother or stepsister, or
  to any other individuals whose needs are excluded pursuant to department
  regulations consistent with federal law and regulations.
2.  For  the purposes of determining eligibility for and the amount of
  assistance payable, the social services district shall deem available to
  any minor whose parent or legal guardian is a minor, any income  of  the
  parent or legal guardian of such minor parent or legal guardian residing
  in  the  same  dwelling  unit,  to  the same extent that the income of a
  stepparent would be included pursuant to subdivision nine of section one
  hundred thirty-one-a of this article.
3. For the purposes of this section a minor is a child under  the  age
  of eighteen.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-D - Substance Abuse Rehabilitative and Preventive Services.

§ 131-d. Substance abuse rehabilitative and preventive services.
1.   Any   inconsistent   provision  of  this  chapter  or  other  law
  notwithstanding, social services officials shall provide substance abuse
  services, to eligible  needy  substance  abusers  and  persons  who  are
  substance dependent, under aid to dependent children, in accordance with
  regulations  of  the  department,  if  and  so  long  as  federal aid is
  available therefor.
2. Each social services official shall provide  such  services  either
  directly  or  by  purchase  from  a public or private non-profit agency;
  provided, however, that such services are approved by the state division
  of substance abuse  services  and  that  any  facility  furnishing  such
  services  is  supervised and approved by the state division of substance
  abuse services.
3. If and so  long  as  federal  funds  are  available  therefor,  the
  department shall be responsible for providing eligible services pursuant
  to  this  section,  provided,  however, such services shall be furnished
  through a cooperative agreement with the  state  division  of  substance
  abuse  services.  Provided, further that the scope of the responsibility
  of the department hereunder shall not extend beyond the authorization of
  such division to  furnish  such  services  either  directly  or  through
  contract.
4.  There shall be such cooperative agreements, between the department
  and the state division of substance abuse services and other appropriate
  state departments and agencies as shall  be  necessary  to  assure  that
  there  will  be  a  maximum  utilization  of existing rehabilitative and
  preventive services and that the purposes and objectives of this section
  will be effectively accomplished.
5. Any inconsistent provision  of  law  notwithstanding,  expenditures
  made  by  a  social services official under this section shall be deemed
  expenditures for and administration of public assistance and  care,  and
  shall  be  subject  to reimbursement by the state in accordance with the
  provisions of section one hundred fifty-three of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-E - Family Planning Services.

§ 131-e.  Family planning services.  Each social services commissioner
  shall  require  that  appropriate members of his staff personally advise
  eligible needy  persons  periodically  of  the  availability  at  public
  expense  of family planning services for the prevention of pregnancy and
  inquire whether such persons desire to have such services  furnished  to
  them.    In  those  cases where such services are desired, they shall be
  made available at public expense under appropriate  provisions  of  this
  chapter.    Nothing  herein  shall  be construed, however, to require or
  permit coercion of such persons to request or  receive  family  planning
  services.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-F - Retroactive Social Security Benefit Increases.

§  131-f.    Retroactive  social  security  benefit  increases.    Any
  inconsistent provisions of this title, other provisions of this  chapter
  or  of any other law notwithstanding, in determining the need for family
  assistance, a social services official shall disregard, in  addition  to
  any  other  amounts which are required or permitted to be disregarded in
  determining such need, any retroactive  lump  sum  payment  made  to  an
  individual  under  title  II  of  the  social security act (or under the
  railroad retirement act of nineteen hundred thirty-seven  by  reason  of
  the  first  proviso  in  section  three  (e) thereof), as a result of an
  increase  in  monthly  benefits  under  the  old  age,  survivors,   and
  disability insurance system.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-G - Authority to Accept Public and Private Gifts.

§  131-g.    Authority  to  accept  public  and  private  gifts.   The
  department or a social services district shall have the power  to  apply
  for,  accept,  receive  and expend public and private gifts or grants of
  money, property or  services  for  any  purpose  provided  for  by  this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-H - Authority to Operate Family Homes for Adults.

§  131-h.    Authority  to  operate family homes for adults.  A social
  services official may be authorized to operate family homes for  adults,
  in  compliance  with the regulations of the department, if such official
  applies for such authority and demonstrates the need therefor  and  that
  suitable care is not otherwise available.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-I - Social Services Districts; Agreements.

* §  131-i.  Social  services  districts;  agreements.  Subject to the
  provisions of section one hundred nineteen-o of  the  general  municipal
  law,  social  services  districts  may  enter  into  agreements  for the
  performance among themselves or of one  for  another  of  any  of  their
  respective  functions,  powers  and  duties on a cooperative or contract
  basis or for the provision of a joint service; provided,  however,  that
  no  such agreement shall result in any relocation of offices which would
  unreasonably diminish  access  to  necessary  services  or  unreasonably
  increase  unreimbursed travel for applicants for or recipients of public
  assistance or services.
* NB There are 2 § 131-i's.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-J - Certain Utility Deposits.

§  131-j.    Certain utility deposits.   Any inconsistent provision of
  this chapter or other law notwithstanding, a public assistance recipient
  shall not be required by any corporation subject to  the  provisions  of
  article  four  of  the public service law to pay a security deposit as a
  condition of receiving any utility  service  provided  by  such  utility
  company.    This  section  shall  apply  to  recipients  of supplemental
  security income benefits or additional state  payments,  as  defined  in
  section  three hundred of this chapter, and such persons shall be deemed
  public assistance recipients for the purposes of this section.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-K - Undocumented Noncitizens.

§ 131-k. Undocumented  noncitizens. An otherwise eligible applicant or
  recipient who has been determined to be ineligible for aid to  dependent
  children, home relief or medical assistance because such individual is a
  noncitizen  unlawfully  residing  in  the  United States or because such
  individual failed to furnish evidence that such individual  is  lawfully
  residing  in  the  United  States  shall  be immediately referred to the
  United States immigration and naturalization  service,  or  the  nearest
  consulate  of  the  country  of  the applicant or the recipient for such
  service or consulate to take appropriate action or furnish assistance.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-L - Exclusion of Agent Orange Benefits.

§  131-l.  Exclusion  of  agent  orange  benefits.  A  social services
  official shall disregard as income  and  resources  in  any  program  of
  public  assistance  such  sums  as  are required to be disregarded under
  section two hundred thirty-five-a of the military law  with  respect  to
  exposure to agent orange or phenoxy herbicides.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-M - Information on Resource Referral Services.

§  131-m.  Information  on  resource referral services. 1. Each social
  services district shall furnish social services information and resource
  referral services, in accordance with the provisions of this section and
  the regulations of the department.
2. Such services shall be furnished without charge to any  person  who
  is  in  need  of  and  requests  such  services,  without regard to such
  person's eligibility for public assistance.
3.  Each  social  services  district  shall  designate  staff   having
  administrative responsibility for assuring the furnishing of information
  and  referral  regarding  the  following  services  and programs and for
  making appropriate inquiries related  to  the  actual  receipt  of  such
  services:  financial  assistance  programs,  health  care  and services,
  social services,  employment  services  and  other  community  services,
  including legal, education and consumer services.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-P - Group Health Insurance Benefits; Condition of Eligibility.

§  131-p.  Group  health insurance benefits; condition of eligibility.
  Notwithstanding any other inconsistent  provision  of  law  and  to  the
  extent  permissible under federal law, any applicant for or recipient of
  safety net assistance or family assistance who is  or  becomes  employed
  and whose   employer provides group health insurance benefits, including
  benefits  for  a  spouse  and  dependent  children  of such applicant or
  recipient, shall apply for and utilize such benefits as a  condition  of
  eligibility  for  safety  net  assistance  or  family assistance.   Such
  applicant or recipient shall also  utilize  such  benefits  provided  by
  former  employers as long as such benefits are available. The department
  shall promulgate regulations to determine the  eligibility  requirements
  of  those  applicants  and  recipients  who  have more than one employer
  offering group health insurance benefits.
The provisions of this section shall apply  to  such  applicants  upon
  their   initial  certification  for  family  assistance  or  safety  net
  assistance and to such recipients upon their recertifications  for  such
  assistance  following  the date on which this section becomes effective.
  The cost of premiums paid by such  applicants  or  recipients  for  such
  coverage shall be deducted from such applicant's or recipient's earnings
  as an expense incident to his or her employment.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-Q - Electronic Payment File Transfer System Pilot Project.

§  131-q.  Electronic payment file transfer system pilot project. * 1.
  The commissioner is empowered to  authorize  the  city  social  services
  district  of  the city of New York to continue the pilot project for the
  design, development,  implementation  and  operation  of  an  electronic
  payment  file  transfer  system,  in  accordance with regulations of the
  department, as an alternative means of delivery of grants and allowances
  to public assistance recipients.
* NB Expired July 1, 1984
2. The  city  social  services  district  is  authorized  to  initiate
  activities  to  prepare  for  a  city-wide  conversion to the electronic
  payment file transfer system provided,  however,  the  department  shall
  conduct  a hearing to elicit information concerning the effectiveness of
  such system and the impact of such  system  upon  recipients,  and  such
  other  matters  as  the  department  may  deem  relevant. Following such
  hearing, the commissioner may authorize city-wide implementation of such
  system.
3. A recipient residing in the city  social  services  district  in  a
  geographical  area  where the electronic payment file transfer system is
  in operation shall be required to receive his public  assistance  grants
  and allowances at a location designated by the social services district.
  A recipient who is subject to the provisions of this chapter relating to
  work  requirements shall remain subject to such provisions regardless of
  the  location  where  he  receives  his  public  assistance  grants  and
  allowances.
4.  The provisions of subdivision one of this section shall expire on,
  and be of no further force and effect after July first, nineteen hundred
  eighty-four.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-R - Liability for Reimbursement of Public Assistance Benefits.

§ 131-r. Liability for reimbursement of public assistance benefits. 1.
  Any  person  who  is  receiving or has received, within the previous ten
  years, public assistance pursuant to the provisions of this article, and
  who wins a lottery prize of six hundred dollars or more shall  reimburse
  the  department  from  the  winnings,  for  all  such  public assistance
  benefits paid to such person during the previous  ten  years;  provided,
  however,  that such crediting to the department shall in no event exceed
  fifty percent of the amount of the lottery prize. The commissioner shall
  enter into an agreement with the director of the  lottery,  pursuant  to
  section  sixteen hundred thirteen-b of the tax law, for the crediting of
  lottery prizes against public assistance benefits. Nothing herein  shall
  limit  the  ability  of  a  social  services district to make recoveries
  pursuant to section 104 or section 106-b of this chapter.
2. Any inconsistent provision of this chapter  or  of  any  other  law
  notwithstanding,  a  social  services  official may not assert any claim
  under any provision of  this  chapter  to  recover  payments  of  public
  assistance   if   such   payments   were  reimbursed  by  child  support
  collections.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-T - Periodic Reporting.

§  131-t. Periodic reporting. A social services official shall require
  each public assistance  or  food  stamp  household  which  currently  is
  receiving  or received earned income to submit periodic reports relating
  to factors affecting eligibility,  to  the  extent  and  in  the  manner
  required by department regulations.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-U - Domestic Violence Services.

§   131-u.   Domestic   violence   services.  1.  Notwithstanding  any
  inconsistent provision of law, a  social  services  district  shall,  in
  accordance  with  the  provisions of this section and regulations of the
  department, offer and  provide  emergency  shelter  and  services  at  a
  residential  program  for  victims  of  domestic violence, as defined in
  article six-A of this chapter, to  the  extent  that  such  shelter  and
  services  are  necessary and available to a victim of domestic violence,
  as defined in article six-A of this chapter, and in  need  of  emergency
  shelter  and  services, who was residing in the social services district
  at the time of the alleged domestic violence.
2. The department shall annually establish, subject to the approval of
  the director of the budget, a  daily  rate  of  reimbursement  for  each
  residential  program  for  victims  of  domestic violence, as defined in
  article six-A  of  this  chapter,  certified  by  the  department  which
  provides  emergency  shelter  and  services to persons eligible for such
  emergency shelter and  services  pursuant  to  this  section.  A  social
  services  district  financially  responsible  for  a  victim of domestic
  violence shall reimburse a residential program for victims  of  domestic
  violence  for  the  costs  of emergency shelter and services provided to
  such  victim  at  the  daily  reimbursement  rate  established  by   the
  department reduced by any other reimbursement available for such costs.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-V - Temporary Emergency Shelter.

§   131-v.   Temporary   emergency  shelter.  1.  Notwithstanding  any
inconsistent provision of law, and to the extent consistent with federal
law,  a  social  services  official  may  contract  with  a   non-profit
corporation  or  charitable  organization to provide temporary emergency
shelter for eligible homeless households  in  dwelling  units  owned  or
leased, and operated by such corporations or organizations.
2.  An  allowance for such shelter may be made for households dwelling
in such units if:
(a)  no  other  suitable  privately  owned  housing  which  meets  the
department's  standards for health and safety is available, other than a
more expensive hotel or motel; and
(b) no household was evicted to produce such units.
3. The continued need for such shelter shall  be  reviewed,  evaluated
and  authorized  monthly  by  a social services official. Such allowance
shall not be available for more than six months unless the  commissioner
of  the  social  services  district  determines  on an annual basis that
permanent housing is not readily available in the district  and  submits
to the department such determination on an annual basis.
4.  The  social  services  district  shall  submit for approval by the
department health and safety standards that such units must satisfy  and
shall  inspect  such  units  regularly to ensure that such standards are
satisfied.
5. Such non-profit corporation or charitable organization shall, at  a
minimum,  provide such households with assistance in obtaining permanent
housing and with information regarding  available  counseling  services,
employment  assessment,  job  training  and  job placement services, and
child care services.
6. This section shall  not  be  construed  to  limit  other  means  of
providing  temporary  emergency  shelter  otherwise permitted under this
chapter and regulations promulgated thereunder.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-W - Limitations in the Payment of Rent Arrears.

§  131-w.  Limitations in the payment of rent arrears. Districts shall
  not provide assistance to pay rent arrears, property taxes  or  mortgage
  arrears  for  persons  not  eligible  for  home relief, aid to dependent
  children, emergency  assistance  to  needy  families  with  children  or
  emergency  assistance  for  aged,  blind and disabled persons, except to
  persons who are without income or  resources  immediately  available  to
  meet  the  emergency  need, whose gross household income does not exceed
  one hundred twenty-five percent of the federal income  official  poverty
  line and who sign a repayment agreement agreeing to repay the assistance
  in  a  period  not to exceed twelve months.  The districts shall enforce
  the repayment agreements by any legal method available to a creditor, in
  addition to any rights it has pursuant to this chapter.  The  department
  shall  promulgate  regulations  to  implement  this section which shall,
  among other things, establish standards for the  contents  of  repayment
  agreements and establish standards to ensure that assistance is provided
  only in emergency circumstances.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 131-X - Reverse Mortgage Loans.

§    131-x.    Reverse   mortgage   loans.   Notwithstanding any other
  inconsistent provisions of law  and  to  the  extent  permissible  under
  federal  law,  regulation  or waiver, the proceeds of a reverse mortgage
  loan made in conformity with the requirements  of  section  two  hundred
  eighty  or  two  hundred  eighty-a  of the real property law or exempted
  therefrom pursuant to subdivision four of section two hundred eighty  or
  subdivision  four  of  section two hundred eighty-a of the real property
  law shall not be considered as income or resources of the mortgagor  for
  any  purpose  under  any law relating to food stamps, public assistance,
  veteran  assistance,  safety  net  assistance,  low-income  home  energy
  assistance,   federal   supplemental  security  income  benefits  and/or
  additional state payments, medical  assistance,  any  prescription  drug
  plan  or  other  payments,  allowances,  benefits  or services available
  pursuant to this chapter; provided, however, that for applicants or  for
  recipients  of  safety  net  assistance,  any such reverse mortgage loan
  proceeds shall be disregarded  as income and/or resources  only  in  the
  event that, and for so long as, federal laws and regulations exempt loan
  proceeds  in  the  determination  of  eligibility  for  both  the aid to
  families  with  dependent  children  and  supplemental  security  income
  programs.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 132-A - Children Born Out of Wedlock; Special Provisions.

§ 132-a. Children born out of wedlock; special provisions.  1. When an
  investigation  is  required  by section one hundred thirty-two and other
  provisions  of  this  chapter  for  the  purpose  of   determining   the
  eligibility for public assistance and care of an applicant pregnant with
  or who is the mother of an out of wedlock child such investigation shall
  include diligent inquiry into the paternity of such child.
2.  Except  when  the  surrender  of  the child to the social services
  official  for  the  purpose  of  adoption  is  under  consideration   in
  accordance  with  the  provisions of section one hundred thirty-two, and
  except when the child  has  been  surrendered  to  the  social  services
  official for the purpose of adoption, the social services official shall
  communicate  with  and  require support from any person liable by law to
  contribute to the support of such applicant or her child.
3. In appropriate cases, such applicant shall be required  to  file  a
  petition  in  the  family court instituting proceedings to determine the
  paternity of her  child,  and  she  shall  be  required  to  assist  and
  cooperate in establishing such paternity. However, such a petition shall
  not  be  required  to  be filed if the child has been surrendered to the
  social services official for adoption or  if  such  surrender  is  under
  consideration  in  accordance with the provisions of section one hundred
  thirty-two.
4. In any case where the social  services  official  has  decided,  in
  accordance with the provisions of section one hundred thirty-two, not to
  conduct  an  investigation,  a  written  report of such decision and the
  basis therefor shall be made in duplicate to the department, upon  forms
  prescribed  by  the  department,  within  thirty  days  after the making
  thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 133 - Temporary Preinvestigation Emergency Needs Assistance or Care.

§  133. Temporary preinvestigation emergency needs assistance or care.
  Upon application for public assistance or care under this  chapter,  the
  local  social services district shall notify the applicant in writing of
  the availability of a monetary grant adequate to  meet  emergency  needs
  assistance  or  care  and  shall,  at  such time, determine whether such
  person is in immediate need. If it shall appear  that  a  person  is  in
  immediate  need,  emergency  needs  assistance  or care shall be granted
  pending  completion  of  an  investigation.  The  written   notification
  required  by  this  section  shall  inform  such person of a right to an
  expedited hearing when emergency needs assistance or care is  denied.  A
  public   assistance  applicant  who  has  been  denied  emergency  needs
  assistance or care must be given reason for such  denial  in  a  written
  determination  which  sets  forth  the basis for such denial. Nothing in
  this section shall be construed to require the social services  district
  or  any  state agency to provide medical assistance, except as otherwise
  required by title eleven of this article.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 133-A - Contracts for Distribution of Public Assistance Grants.

§  133-a.  Contracts for distribution of public assistance grants.  As
  permitted or required by regulations  of  the  department,  each  social
  services  district may contract with an appropriate department or agency
  of the state or banking institutions to distribute grants and allowances
  of public assistance to the grantees thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 134 - Supervision.

§  134.  Supervision.   The social service officials responsible under
  section one hundred thirty-two for  investigating  any  application  for
  public  assistance  and  care, shall maintain close contact with persons
  granted public assistance and care.  Such persons shall  be  visited  as
  frequently  as  is  provided  by  the  regulations  of the department or
  required by the circumstances of the case, in order that  any  treatment
  or   service   tending  to  restore  such  persons  to  a  condition  of
  self-support and to relieve their distress may be rendered and in  order
  that  assistance or care may be given only in such amount and as long as
  necessary.  Persons receiving care in an institution shall be visited as
  often as may be necessary in order that any service or  care  needed  by
  them  shall  be  provided  and in order that institutional care shall be
  given only as long as it is advantageous for the person's welfare.   The
  circumstances   of   a   person   receiving   continued  care  shall  be
  reinvestigated as frequently as the regulations of  the  department  may
  require.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 134-B - Front End Detection System.

§  134-b.  Front  end detection system. In accordance with regulations
  promulgated by the  department,  each  social  services  district  shall
  establish  procedures  to  identify,  investigate  and resolve potential
  cases of fraud, misrepresentation or inadequate documentation  prior  to
  determining  an  applicant's  eligibility  for  public  assistance. Such
  procedures  shall  not  delay  the  determination  of  eligibility   for
  assistance  beyond  the  timeframes established in law or regulation for
  such determination, including emergency assistance. Each social services
  district  shall  submit  to  the  department  a  plan  describing   such
  procedures in such form and at such times as the department may require.
  Such  department  regulations  shall  include,  but  not  be limited to,
  standards governing referrals by the district  to  its  fraud  detection
  unit, and shall set forth indicators to be used, in part, to govern such
  referrals  based  on the individual's employability, employment history,
  or prior incidence of overpayments attributable to client conduct.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 134-C - Requirement to Publicly Post Information.

§  134-c.  Requirement  to  publicly  post  information. 1. Each local
social services district  shall  be  required  to  post  information  in
accordance  with  this section, in a form and manner to be determined by
the commissioner. Such poster shall be conspicuous and  visible  to  all
applicants  and/or  recipients of public assistance who are applying for
assistance and be at least eight and one-half inches by eleven inches in
size. Such information shall also be posted on the office  of  temporary
and disability assistance's website.
2.  Such  information  shall include, but not be limited to, informing
individuals who are applying to receive assistance that  they  have  the
right to:
(a) a fair hearing;
(b) ask about emergency assistance;
(c) apply for all benefits and services;
(d) ask about child care;
(e) free language services;
(f)  screening and special services if experiencing domestic violence;
and
(g) a written adequate notice.