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2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 135 - Cooperation of Public Welfare Officials.

§  135.  Cooperation of public welfare officials.  1.  It shall be the
  duty of every public welfare official to render assistance and cooperate
  within  his  jurisdictional  powers  with  every  other  public  welfare
  official  and  with the family court and all other governmental agencies
  concerned  with  the  health  and  welfare  of   persons   under   their
  jurisdiction.
2.    Every  public  welfare  official  shall  also cooperate whenever
  possible with any private agency whose object is the relief and care  of
  persons  in  need  or the improvement of social conditions in order that
  there may be no duplication of relief and that the work of agencies both
  public and private may be united in an effort to  relieve  distress  and
  prevent dependency.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 136-A - Information From State Tax Commission and the Comptroller.

§ 136-a. Information from state tax commission and the comptroller. 1.
  Section  six  hundred ninety-seven or any other provision of the tax law
  shall in no way be construed to restrict the department from  obtaining,
  on  behalf  of  itself  or  a  local social services district, the name,
  address, social  security  number,  employment  history  and  number  of
  dependents  claimed for any individual certified by the department to be
  a welfare recipient and suspected of abusing,  defrauding  or  otherwise
  violating the welfare system.
2. Information furnished to the department by the state tax commission
  and  the comptroller under or as a result of the agreement authorized by
  section one hundred seventy-one-c of the tax  law  shall  be  considered
  confidential  and  shall  not  be disclosed to persons or agencies other
  than those entitled to  such  information  because  such  disclosure  is
  necessary  for the proper administration of title six-A of article three
  and title ten of article five of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 137 - Exemption From Levy and Execution.

§  137.  Exemption  from  levy  and  execution.   All moneys or orders
  granted to persons as public assistance or care pursuant to this chapter
  shall be inalienable by any assignment or transfer and shall  be  exempt
  from levy and execution under the laws of this state.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 137-A - Exemption of Earnings of Recipients From Assignment, Income Execution and Installment Payment Order.

§  137-a.  Exemption of earnings of recipients from assignment, income
  execution  and  installment  payment  order.  1.    All  wages,  salary,
  commissions  or  other  compensation paid or payable by an employer to a
  person while he is in receipt of public assistance or care supplementary
  to his income pursuant to the provisions of titles  three,  four,  five,
  six and ten of article five of this chapter, or while he would otherwise
  need  such  assistance  or care, shall be exempt from assignment, income
  execution or from an installment payment order under the  laws  of  this
  state but only so long as such public assistance or care, shall continue
  or  would  be  needed if the assignment, income execution or installment
  payment order were enforced. The claim of  the  creditor  shall  in  all
  other respects remain unaffected. Any employer who shall withhold or pay
  over  to  a  person  presenting  an income execution installment payment
  order or assignment, any portion of the earnings of such a recipient  of
  public  assistance or care, after receiving notification in writing from
  a social  services  official  that  the  employee  is  receiving  public
  assistance or care, or that he would become in need of public assistance
  or care if the assignment, income execution or installment payment order
  were  enforced,  shall  be liable in an action by such recipient for the
  amount so paid or withheld contrary to the provisions of this section. A
  social services official sending such notification to an employer  shall
  be  required  to  notify the employer, in writing, of the termination of
  such receipt and need for public assistance and  care  of  the  employee
  involved  when  this  shall  occur.  Upon  receipt  of  such  notice  of
  termination the employer may commence or resume, as  the  case  may  be,
  payment  and  withholding  under  any  assignment,  income  execution or
  installment payment order whose effectiveness was postponed or suspended
  by this section.
2. As used in this section, "public assistance and care" shall include
  federal supplemental security income benefits  paid  pursuant  to  title
  sixteen of the federal social security act and additional state payments
  paid pursuant to title six of article five of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 138-A - Responsibility of the Department for Recipients in Family Care.

§  138-a.  Responsibility  of  the department for recipients in family
  care.   1. Any inconsistent provision  of  this  chapter  or  other  law
  notwithstanding,  the  department  shall  be  responsible for furnishing
  public assistance and care to  mentally  disabled  persons  residing  in
  family  care homes licensed by the office of mental health or the office
  for people with developmental disabilities  who  are  admitted  to  such
  facilities  in  accordance with regulations of the office which licenses
  the facility. However, the department may, at its option, discharge such
  responsibility, in whole or in part, through social  services  districts
  designated  to  act  as agents of the department. While so designated, a
  social services district shall act as agent of the department and  shall
  be  entitled  to  reimbursement  as  provided  in  section  one  hundred
  fifty-three of this article.
2. The department shall possess  and  may  exercise  like  powers  and
  perform  like duties in respect to the assistance and care of persons in
  family care  as  social  services  officials  exercise  and  perform  in
  relation to persons in their respective jurisdictions.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 142 - Exclusiveness of Eligibility Requirements.

§ 142. Exclusiveness of eligibility requirements.  No person receiving
  federal  supplemental  security  income payments and/or additional state
  payments, or family assistance shall for the  same  period  receive  any
  other of such forms of assistance.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 142-A - Federal Economic Opportunity Act Grants or Payments; Effect on Eligibility for Certain Public Assistance or Care.

§  142-a.  Federal economic opportunity act grants or payments; effect
  on eligibility for certain public assistance or care.
Any inconsistent provisions of titles ten and eleven of article  five,
  other  provisions  of this chapter, or of any other law notwithstanding,
  in determining the need for public assistance or care under such titles:
1. Any grant made to a family under title III of the federal  economic
  opportunity  act of nineteen hundred sixty-four shall not be regarded as
  income or resources of such family in determining the need of any member
  thereof for such public assistance or care.
2. The first eighty-five dollars plus  one-half  of  the  excess  over
  eighty-five  dollars  of payments made to or on behalf of any person for
  or with respect to any month under title I or II of the federal economic
  opportunity act of nineteen hundred sixty-four or any  program  assisted
  under  such  title  shall not be regarded as income or resources of such
  person in determining his need for such public assistance or care, or as
  income or resources of any other individual in  determining  such  other
  individual's  need  for  such  public assistance or care; but any amount
  made available to or for the benefit of such other individual  from  the
  excess  of  the amounts exempted hereby may be considered in determining
  the eligibility of such other individual for such public  assistance  or
  care.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 142-B - Federal Manpower Development Training Act and Elementary and Secondary Education Act Grants or Payments; Effect on Eligibility for Certain Public Assi

§  142-b. Federal manpower development training act and elementary and
  secondary education act grants or payments; effect  on  eligibility  for
  certain public assistance or care.  So long as the applicable provisions
  of  the federal manpower development and training act, as amended, or of
  the elementary and secondary education act as amended, may require:
1. any inconsistent provision of title  ten  of  article  five,  other
  provisions  of  this  chapter,  or  of any other law notwithstanding, in
  determining the need for public assistance or care under such title, any
  payments made under  the  manpower  development  and  training  act,  as
  amended,  which  are  made  in  lieu  of  a training allowance to defray
  expenses  attributable  to  training  and/or  as  a  training  incentive
  payment,  shall  not be regarded as income or resources of the person in
  determining his need for such public assistance or care, or as income or
  resources of any other person in determining such  other  person's  need
  for such public assistance or care; and/or
2.  any  inconsistent  provisions  of title ten of article five, other
  provisions of this chapter, or of  any  other  law  notwithstanding,  in
  determining the need for public assistance or care under such title, the
  first  eighty-five  dollars  per month, during a period of not less than
  twelve nor  more  than  twenty-four  months  as  may  be  prescribed  by
  regulations  of  the  department,  earned  by  any  person  for services
  rendered to any program assisted under title I  of  the  elementary  and
  secondary  education  act  of  nineteen  hundred sixty-five, as amended,
  shall not  be  regarded  as  income  or  resources  of  such  person  in
  determining  his need for public assistance or care under such title ten
  of article five of this chapter, or as income or resources of any  other
  person   in  determining  such  other  person's  need  for  such  public
  assistance or care.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 143 - Information to Be Given by Employers of Labor to Social Services Officials, the Department, Family Court and the State Department of Mental Hygiene.

§  143.  Information  to  be  given  by  employers  of labor to social
  services  officials,  the  department,  family  court  and   the   state
  department   of   mental  hygiene.     If  requested  by  an  authorized
  representative of the state department  of  mental  hygiene  or  of  the
  department  or  by  any  social  services  official,  the  officials  or
  executives of any corporation or partnership, and all employers of labor
  of any kind, doing business within the state of New York, shall  furnish
  to  such representative or social services official information relating
  to facts of which such officials, executives  or  employers  shall  have
  cognizance,  concerning  the last known address, social security number,
  plans  providing  care  or  other  medical  benefits  by  insurance   or
  otherwise,  wages,  salaries,  earnings or other income of any applicant
  for, or recipient of public assistance or care named in such request  or
  of  any  relative  legally responsible for the support of such applicant
  for, or recipient of public assistance or care, or of any person legally
  responsible for a person who is receiving services pursuant  to  section
  one  hundred eleven-g of this chapter, or for the support of any patient
  of any state institution named  by  such  representative  of  the  state
  department of mental hygiene.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 143-A - Information to Be Given to Public Welfare Officials by Retail Instalment Sellers, Small Loan Companies and Sales Finance Companies.

§ 143-a. Information to be given to public welfare officials by retail
  instalment  sellers,  small  loan companies and sales finance companies.
  If requested by an authorized representative of the department or by  an
  authority charged with the duty of administering laws relating to public
  assistance  or  care in any village, town, city or county, the officials
  or executives of any corporation or partnership and all persons  engaged
  in selling goods or furnishing services to retail buyers for a time sale
  price  payable  in instalments, or in making personal loans whether as a
  licensed lender under the  banking  law  or  otherwise,  and  any  sales
  finance  company  as  defined  in  article ten of the banking law, shall
  furnish to such representatives or authority such information  of  which
  such  officials, executives or persons shall have cognizance relating to
  transactions with a recipient of or an applicant for  public  assistance
  or  care  named in such request.  Such facts shall include a description
  of the goods or services sold and the amount of the obligation  incurred
  therefor,  the amount of any loan made, the amounts paid and the balance
  owing, the place of employment, the wages, salaries, earnings  or  other
  income, guarantors or co-signers, and all other information furnished by
  the persons named for the purpose of obtaining credit.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 144 - Power of Public Welfare Officials and Service Officers to Administer Oaths; Power of Public Welfare Officials to Subpoena Persons Liable for Support A

§  144.  Power  of  public  welfare  officials and service officers to
  administer oaths; power of public welfare officials to subpoena  persons
  liable  for  support  and  compel production of records.  Public welfare
  officials and service officers shall have power to administer oaths  and
  take affidavits in all matters pertaining to their office and to elicit,
  by  examination  under  oath,  statement of facts from applicants for or
  recipients of assistance or care.  Public welfare officials  shall  have
  further  power  to  subpoena  persons  liable  by law for the support of
  applicants  for  or  recipients  of  assistance  or  care,  compel   the
  attendance  of  such persons and take their testimony under oath for the
  purpose of determining the ability of such persons to contribute towards
  the support of such applicants for or recipients of assistance or  care,
  and  in  connection therewith to compel the production of books, papers,
  records and documents.   Such persons shall  be  entitled  to  the  same
  mileage  fees  as  are  allowed to witnesses required to attend in civil
  actions in courts of record.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 144-A - Information to Be Given to Officials of the Department and of Social Services Districts.

§ 144-a. Information to be given to officials of the department and of
  social   services   districts.   Any   inconsistent   provision  of  law
  notwithstanding, if requested by an  authorized  representative  of  the
  department  or  by  an  official  of  any  town,  city  or county who is
  responsible for administering a program authorized by this chapter,  the
  officials  of any banking or financial organization or institution doing
  business in the state whether chartered under state law, federal law, or
  the laws of another jurisdiction, shall  furnish  to  such  governmental
  officials  such  information  as  such  officials have as to whether any
  present applicant for or recipient of any assistance, care  or  services
  authorized  by  this  chapter,  has  or  had  funds, securities or other
  property on deposit or in the  custody  of  such  banking  or  financial
  organization  or  institution, and the amount or probable value thereof.
  Such information shall be provided, to the extent  practicable,  in  the
  format specified by such governmental officials (except that any banking
  or  financial institution may discharge its obligation by supplying such
  matching information  on  cartridge,  tape  or  diskette  media  in  the
  American   National  Standard  Code  for  Information  Interchange  file
  format).  These provisions shall be inclusive of and in addition to  the
  provisions  of  section  four of the banking law and may be administered
  and enforced in any  manner  consistent  with  the  provisions  of  this
  chapter  or  in any other manner authorized or permitted by the laws and
  courts of this state.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 145 - Penalties.

§  145. Penalties. 1.  Any person who by means of a false statement or
  representation, or by deliberate concealment of any material fact, or by
  impersonation or other fraudulent device, obtains or attempts to obtain,
  or aids or abets any person to obtain public assistance or care to which
  he is not entitled, or does any wilful act designed  to  interfere  with
  the proper administration of public assistance and care, shall be guilty
  of a misdemeanor, unless such act constitutes a violation of a provision
  of  the  penal  law  of the state of New York, in which case he shall be
  punished in accordance with the penalties fixed by such law. Failure  on
  the  part  of a person receiving public assistance or care to notify the
  social services official granting such assistance or care of the receipt
  of money or property or income  from  employment  or  any  other  source
  whatsoever,  shall,  upon the cashing of a public assistance check by or
  on behalf of such person after the receipt of such money,  or  property,
  or  income, constitute presumptive evidence of deliberate concealment of
  a material fact. Whenever a  social  services  official  has  reason  to
  believe  that  any person has violated any provision of this section, he
  shall promptly refer the facts and evidence  available  to  him  to  the
  appropriate  district  attorney or other prosecuting official, who shall
  immediately evalaute the facts and evidence and take appropriate action.
2. The provisions of subdivision one of this section  shall  apply  to
  social  services  officials  and employees, who shall also be subject to
  removal and shall be liable in an action brought by the county or  city,
  or  by  the  state commissioner of social services, for the value of the
  public assistance improperly granted to any person as a  result  of  the
  wilful wrongful act of such official or employee.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 145-A - Judgment Liens.

§  145-a.  Judgment  liens.  1.  If  any provider of care, services or
  supplies under the medical assistance program is  required  to  pay  any
  fine,  penalty  or  overpayment  to  the  department,  a social services
  district or any  other  social  services  entity  as  a  result  of  the
  provisions  of  this  chapter  or  as  a  result  of  any administrative
  procedure, such provider shall make payment in the amount and the manner
  directed by the commissioner or his or her  agents,  representatives  or
  designees.
2.  Upon  the  issuance to the provider of a written notice of a final
  determination, the department must also notify the provider  in  writing
  of  the  provider's  right to request a hearing. The provider's right to
  request a hearing shall not expire earlier  than  sixty  days  from  the
  mailing  of  such  notice  of  the provider's right to a hearing.  If no
  administrative hearing or proceeding for judicial review shall  then  be
  pending  and  if  the  time for initiation of such hearing or proceeding
  shall  have  expired,  the  commissioner   or   his   or   her   agents,
  representatives or designees may file with the clerk of the county where
  the  provider resides or has a place of business a certified copy of the
  final administrative determination of the commissioner  or  his  or  her
  agents,  whether  in  the  form of a written final audit report or other
  final determination that  such  provider  has  engaged  in  unacceptable
  practices  or  has  received  payment  to  which  such  provider  is not
  entitled, containing the amount found to be  due.  The  filing  of  such
  final  administrative determination shall have the full force and effect
  of a judgment duly docketed in the  office  of  such  clerk.  The  final
  administrative  determination  may be enforced by and in the name of the
  commissioner  in  the  same  manner,  and  with  like  effect,  as  that
  prescribed  by the civil practice law and rules for the enforcement of a
  money judgment. Such final administrative  determination  shall  not  be
  filed  until  at  least  sixty  days  after the department has posted by
  ordinary mail to the provider at the address of such  provider  on  file
  with  the  department  a  copy of the final administrative determination
  which shall contain notice of the amount found to be due and owing.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 145-C - Sanctions.

§  145-c.  Sanctions. Any person who, individually or as a member of a
  family, applies for or receives public assistance  and  is  found  by  a
  federal, state or local criminal, civil or other court or pursuant to an
  administrative  hearing  held  in accordance with the regulations of the
  department, on the basis of a plea  of  guilty  or  nolo  contendere  or
  otherwise,  intentionally  to  have  (a)  made  a  false  or  misleading
  statement or  misrepresented,  concealed,  or  withheld  facts,  or  (b)
  committed  any  act  intended  to  mislead,  misrepresent,  conceal,  or
  withhold facts or propound a falsity, for the purpose of establishing or
  maintaining the eligibility of the individual  or  of  the  individual's
  family  for  aid  or  of  increasing  (or preventing a reduction in) the
  amount of such aid, then the needs of such individual shall not be taken
  into account in determining his or her need or that of his or her family
  pursuant to section one hundred thirty-one-a of this article (i)  for  a
  period  of  six months upon the first occasion of any such offense, (ii)
  for a period of twelve months upon  the  second  occasion  of  any  such
  offense  or  upon  an  offense which resulted in the wrongful receipt of
  benefits in an amount of between at least one thousand  dollars  and  no
  more  than  three  thousand  nine hundred dollars, (iii) for a period of
  eighteen months upon the third occasion of any such offense or  upon  an
  offense  which  results in the wrongful receipt of benefits in an amount
  in excess of three thousand nine hundred dollars, and  (iv)  five  years
  for  any  subsequent occasion of any such offense.  Any period for which
  sanctions are imposed shall remain in  effect,  without  possibility  of
  administrative  stay,  unless  and  until  the  finding  upon  which the
  sanctions  were  imposed  is  subsequently  reversed  by  a   court   of
  appropriate  jurisdiction;  but  in  no  event shall the duration of the
  period for which such sanctions are imposed be subject  to  review.  The
  sanctions  shall  be  in  addition  to, and not in substitution for, any
  other sanctions which may be provided for by law  with  respect  to  the
  offenses  involved,  except  that  the social services official or court
  official assessing penalties against a recipient for an act of fraud  or
  misrepresentation  described in this subdivision may consider whether to
  impose  such  penalties  based  upon  the  existence  of  the  penalties
  described herein.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 146 - Penalty for the Sale or Exchange of Assistance Supplies.

§  146.  Penalty  for the sale or exchange of assistance supplies.  1.
  Any person who shall sell or exchange supplies or articles furnished him
  as assistance or care by any public welfare official or employee of  the
  public  welfare  district,  or  dispose of them in any other way than as
  directed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2. Any person who purchases  any  article  knowing  it  to  have  been
  furnished  to any person as assistance or care shall also be guilty of a
  misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 147 - Misuse of Food Stamps, Food Stamp Program Coupons, Authorization Cards and Electronic Access Devices.

§   147.   Misuse   of   food  stamps,  food  stamp  program  coupons,
authorization cards and  electronic  access  devices.  1.  a.    Whoever
knowingly  uses,  transfers,  acquires, alters, purchases, transports or
possesses food stamps, food stamp program coupons,  authorization  cards
or  electronic  access  devices  which  entitle  a person to obtain food
stamps, in any manner not authorized  by  section  ninety-five  of  this
chapter  shall  be  guilty  of  a class A misdemeanor except that if the
value of the benefit he or she obtained:
(i) exceeds one thousand dollars, he or she shall be guilty of a class
E felony; or
(ii) exceeds three thousand dollars, he or she shall be  guilty  of  a
class D felony; or
(iii)  exceeds  fifty thousand dollars, he or she shall be guilty of a
class C felony.
b. For the purposes of this section, the value of the benefit obtained
shall be the cumulative face value  of  such  food  stamps,  food  stamp
program coupons, authorization cards or electronic access devices.
2.  Any  person  found to have violated the provisions of subparagraph
(i), (ii) or (iii) of paragraph a of subdivision one  of  this  section,
who  shall possess a license to sell liquor under section sixty-three of
the alcoholic beverage control law or  to  sell  lottery  tickets  under
article  thirty-four of the tax law, shall have such license or licenses
revoked in addition to any other penalty authorized by  law.    As  used
herein,  the  word  "person"  shall  mean  any  individual, partnership,
corporation, or association.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 148 - Penalty for Unlawfully Bringing a Needy Person Into a Public Welfare District.

§  148.  Penalty  for unlawfully bringing a needy person into a public
  welfare district.  No person shall, without  legal  authority,  send  or
  bring,  or  cause  to be sent or brought, any needy person into a public
  welfare district with the purpose of making him a charge on such  public
  welfare  district,  or for the purpose of avoiding the responsibility of
  assistance or care in the public  welfare  district  from  which  he  is
  brought or sent.  Any person found guilty of such an act shall be guilty
  of  a  misdemeanor and liable to a fine of fifty dollars, recoverable in
  the name of the public welfare district.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 149 - Penalty for Bringing a Needy Person Into the State.

§  149.  Penalty  for  bringing a needy person into the state.  1. Any
  person who knowingly brings, or causes to be  brought,  a  needy  person
  from  out  of  the state into this state for the purpose of making him a
  public charge, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine  of
  one hundred dollars, and shall be obligated to convey such person out of
  the state or to support him at his own expense.
2.  The  commissioner  of public welfare of the district to which such
  needy person is brought may  bring  a  suit  in  a  court  of  competent
  jurisdiction to enforce this obligation.
3. The court shall require satisfactory security from such person that
  he  will  convey the needy person out of the state within the time fixed
  by the court or will indemnify  the  public  welfare  district  for  all
  charges   and   expenses   incurred  for  the  assistance  and  care  or
  transportation of such needy person. If  such  person  refuses  to  give
  security  when  so  required  the  court  may commit him to jail for not
  exceeding three months.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 150 - Penalty for Neglect to Report or for Making False Report.

§  150.  Penalty for neglect to report or for making false report.  1.
  Any commissioner of public welfare, deputy commissioner,  town  or  city
  public  welfare officer, service officer, or any officer or employee who
  shall neglect or refuse to  render  any  account,  statement  or  report
  required  by or pursuant to this chapter, or who shall delay, neglect or
  refuse to forward any application for  public  assistance  or  care,  or
  shall  wilfully make false report or shall neglect to pay over any money
  within the time required by law, shall forfeit two hundred  dollars  and
  shall  be  liable to an action for all money which shall be in his hands
  with the interest thereon after the time the same should have been  paid
  over.
2.  Any officer, department or board, in case of failure to receive an
  application for public assistance and  care,  or  a  report  or  account
  required  by  this  chapter,  shall  notify the district attorney having
  authority in such public welfare district.
3. The district attorney, upon receiving such notice, shall  prosecute
  in the name of such officer, department or board for the recovery of the
  penalty  or  of  such  money, or both. The penalty and the sum recovered
  shall be deposited in the public welfare  fund  of  the  public  welfare
  district or of a town or city thereof, as the case may be.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 152 - Payments to the New York Public Welfare Association; Attendance at Conventions of Public Welfare Officials.

§ 152. Payments to the New York public welfare association; attendance
  at  conventions  of public welfare officials.  The legislative body of a
  county  or  city  is  hereby  authorized  to  include  annually  in  the
  appropriation  made  for  public  assistance  and  care  and to raise by
  taxation the sum necessary to meet the actual and necessary expenses  of
  maintaining  and  continuing the New York public welfare association for
  the purpose of devising practical ways and means for  obtaining  greater
  economy  and  efficiency  in the administration of public assistance and
  care, and for the expenses incurred  by  public  welfare  officials  and
  employees   in   attending   meetings   of   public  welfare  officials.
  Superintendents and matrons of public  homes,  county  and  city  public
  welfare  officials  and  deputies  and  agents  designated by the public
  welfare officials are authorized to  attend  the  midwinter  and  annual
  conventions  of  public  welfare  officials.   The necessary expenses in
  connection with such attendance shall be paid from public welfare funds.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 152-A - Burial Reserves for Certain Recipients of Public Assistance or Care From Assigned Assets.

§  152-a.  Burial reserves for certain recipients of public assistance
  or  care from assigned assets. When other  provisions  of  this  chapter
  providing    for  reserving  an  amount for the burial of a recipient of
  public assistance  or care, from assets transferred  or  assigned  to  a
  social  services  official,   do not apply to a recipient because of the
  category of public assistance or  care received by him or her, as in the
  case of a  recipient of safety net assistance, a similar burial  reserve
  from  assigned assets may or shall, as the regulations of the department
  may    permit or require, be set aside for such recipient; and any  such
  burial    reserve  heretofore  set  aside  with  the  approval  of   the
  department,  or in  accordance with its requirements, shall be deemed to
  have been authorized.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 152-B - Surplus After Recovery of Cost of Public Assistance and Care; Unclaimed Funds.

§ 152-b. Surplus after recovery of cost of public assistance and care;
  unclaimed  funds. If, after the full amount expended by a public welfare
  district for the assistance and care  of  a  deceased  or  other  former
  recipient of public assistance and care, including the federal and state
  shares  thereof,  as  determined  in  accordance with regulations of the
  department, and any authorized amount expended for the  burial  of  such
  deceased  recipient, shall have been recovered and deducted from the net
  proceeds of assets which have been transferred or assigned to the public
  welfare official by or on behalf of such recipient to  insure  repayment
  of  the cost of his assistance and care, any balance or surplus remains,
  it shall be credited forthwith by the public  welfare  district  to  the
  estate  or  persons entitled thereto; but if unclaimed within four years
  thereafter by those  entitled  thereto  it  shall  be  deemed  abandoned
  property  and  be  paid  to  the  state  comptroller pursuant to section
  thirteen hundred five of the abandoned property law.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 1 - General Provisions › 152-C - Menstrual Products.

§ 152-c. Menstrual products. Any provider of temporary shelter that is
  reimbursed  from  state  or  state-administered grants or funds shall be
  required  to  provide  an  adequate   number   of   menstrual   products
  commensurate  with an individual's needs, including, but not limited to,
  sanitary napkins, tampons and panty liners, at no  cost  to  individuals
  requiring  such  products.  For  purposes  of  this  section, "temporary
  shelter" shall include but not be limited to a family shelter, a shelter
  for adults,  a  hotel,  an  emergency  apartment,  a  domestic  violence
  shelter,  a  runaway  and  homeless  youth  shelter, or a safe house for
  refugees.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 2 - State Reimbursement for Public Assistance and Care › 153-A - Reimbursement for Services to Social Services Districts.

§  153-a. Reimbursement for services to social services districts.  1.
  Expenditures made by a department, bureau, division or other unit  of  a
  county or city for services to, on behalf of, or directly related to the
  operations  of a social services district, pursuant to the provisions of
  this chapter or any other provision of law,  may,  if  approved  by  the
  department,  be subject to reimbursement by the state, if and so long as
  such expenditures are subject to federal reimbursement and only  to  the
  extent  of  such federal reimbursement.   There may be paid to each such
  social services district the amount of federal funds, if  any,  properly
  received  or  to  be  received  on  account of such expenditures.   This
  section shall not apply to reimbursement for expenditures related to the
  location of absent parents, establishment of paternity or enforcement of
  support reimburseable  under  title  six-A  of  article  three  of  this
  chapter.
2.  a.  Claims for such reimbursement from federal funds shall be made
  in such form and manner and at such times and for such  periods  as  the
  department  shall  determine, including claims for any such expenditures
  made on or after January 1, l970.
b. When certified by the department, such reimbursement  from  federal
  funds  shall  be paid from the state treasury upon the audit and warrant
  of the comptroller out of funds made available therefor.
c. When the monies allotted to  the  state  by  the  federal  security
  agency,  or other authorized federal agency, for such services to social
  services districts for any quarter or other authorized period shall have
  been received by the department of taxation and finance, the  department
  shall,  as  soon  as  possible, certify to the comptroller the amount to
  which each social services district is  entitled  for  such  quarter  or
  other  authorized  period and such amount shall be paid out of the state
  treasury after  audit  by  the  comptroller  to  the  respective  social
  services district.
3.  Payment  of such reimbursement from federal funds shall be made to
  the fiscal officer of the  social  services  district  entitled  thereto
  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of this chapter or any other provision of
  law.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 2 - State Reimbursement for Public Assistance and Care › 153-B - Reimbursement for Services.

§  153-b.  Reimbursement for services.   Expenditures made by a social
  services district for the purposes of  this  chapter  as  authorized  by
  section  one  hundred thirty-one-g of this chapter shall, if approved by
  the department, be subject to reimbursement by the state not pursuant to
  section one hundred fifty-three or any other provision of this  chapter,
  but,  in accordance with the regulations of the department to the extent
  of any and only in the amount of federal funds, if any properly received
  or to be received on account of such expenditures.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 2 - State Reimbursement for Public Assistance and Care › 153-F - State Reimbursement of Home Energy Grant Expenses.

§   153-f.   State   reimbursement  of  home  energy  grant  expenses.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, expenditures made by  social
  services  districts  in  the form of payments made as home energy grants
  pursuant to the provisions of subdivision three-c of section one hundred
  thirty-one-a of this article shall be reimbursed as follows:
There shall be paid to each such city, district or town;
1. The amount of federal funds properly received or to be received  on
  account of such expenditures; and
2.  One  hundred  percent of the amount expended after first deducting
  therefrom any federal funds properly  received  or  to  be  received  on
  account thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 3 - Home Relief › 157 - Definitions.

§  157. Definitions.  As used in this title.  1. Safety net assistance
  means allowances pursuant to section one hundred  thirty-one-a  of  this
  article  for  all  support,  maintenance and need, and costs of suitable
  training in a trade  to  enable  a  person  to  become  self-supporting,
  furnished   eligible   needy   persons  in  accordance  with  applicable
  provisions of law, by a municipal corporation, or a  town  where  safety
  net assistance is a town charge, to persons or their dependents in their
  abode  or  habitation whenever possible and includes such relief granted
  to veterans under  existing  laws  but  does  not  include  hospital  or
  institutional care, except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, or
  family  assistance or medical assistance for needy persons granted under
  titles ten and eleven of this article, respectively, or aid  to  persons
  receiving   federal   supplemental   security   income  payments  and/or
  additional state payments. Safety net assistance may also be provided in
  a family  home  or  boarding  home,  operated  in  compliance  with  the
  regulations  of the department, and on and after January first, nineteen
  hundred seventy-four, in facilities  in  which  a  person  is  receiving
  family care or residential care, as those terms are used in title six of
  this  article, and to persons receiving care in a facility supervised by
  the  office  of  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse  services  or  in   a
  residential  facility  for  the  mentally disabled approved, licensed or
  operated by the office of mental health or the office  for  people  with
  developmental  disabilities,  other  than  those  facilities  defined in
  sections 7.17 and 13.17 of the mental hygiene law,  in  a  developmental
  center  facility  operated  by  the office for people with developmental
  disabilities or residential care centers  for  adults  operated  by  the
  office  of  mental  health,  when such type of care is deemed necessary.
  Payments to such homes and facilities for care and maintenance  provided
  by them shall be at rates established pursuant to law and regulations of
  the  department.  The  department, however, shall not establish rates of
  payment to such homes or facilities without approval of the director  of
  the budget.
2.  State  aid  means payments to a municipal corporation by the state
  for home relief furnished in accordance with this title.
3. Municipal corporation shall mean a county or city except  a  county
  wholly within a city.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 3 - Home Relief › 160-A - Unexpended Welfare Balances.

§   160-a.   Unexpended   welfare  balances.  1.  Notwithstanding  the
  provisions of any general special or local  law,  where  a  city  is  no
  longer responsible for the cost of public assistance or care or any form
  thereof  as  provided  by sections seventy-two and seventy-three of this
  chapter or operates pursuant to section seventy-four-a of this  chapter,
  any unexpended city welfare funds not due and owing to the state or to a
  social services district which shall remain in the treasury of such city
  on the first day of January of any year may be transferred, appropriated
  and expended for any lawful city purpose.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, where
  a  town  is  no  longer  responsible  for the cost of any type of public
  assistance or care, any unexpended town welfare funds which shall remain
  in the hands of the supervisor or any other town officer  on  the  first
  day  of January of any year and which are not due and owing to the state
  or to a public welfare district may  be  transferred,  appropriated  and
  expended for any lawful town purpose.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 3 - Home Relief › 165 - Recipients Authorized to Work.

§  165.  Recipients  authorized  to  work.  Notwithstanding  any other
  provision of law,  a  social  services  official  may,  in  his  or  her
  discretion,  authorize  a recipient of safety net assistance to work and
  retain the income derived  therefrom  without  any  diminution  or  with
  partial  diminution  of  safety net assistance where such an arrangement
  would, in his or her opinion, lead to elimination of the recipient  from
  the  assistance  rolls  in a reasonable length of time. The commissioner
  shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purpose of this
  section.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 4 - Veteran Assistance › 169 - Eligibility.

§ 169. Eligibility. Each of the following persons who is a resident of
  the state on the date of making application for veteran assistance shall
  be  eligible  for  such assistance if he or she is unable to provide for
  himself or herself, or is  unable  to  secure  support  from  a  legally
  responsible  relative,  and  is  not receiving needed assistance or care
  under other provisions of this chapter, or from other sources:
1. A veteran;
2. The wife, husband, child or grandchild under the age of  twenty-one
  years,  father, mother, stepfather or stepmother of a veteran, if living
  with the veteran;
3. The unremarried surviving spouse of a veteran;
4. The dependent children under the age of  twenty-one  years  or  the
  incapacitated children of a deceased veteran.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 4 - Veteran Assistance › 170 - Character.

§  170. Character. Except as hereinafter otherwise prescribed, veteran
  assistance shall be granted  in  cash  provided,  however,  that  in  an
  individual  case where the granting of cash may be deemed impracticable,
  veteran assistance may be granted in whole or in part by order.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 4 - Veteran Assistance › 171 - Responsibility; County Social Services Districts; City Social Services Districts; Cities; Towns.

§  171.  Responsibility; county social services districts; city social
services districts; cities; towns. 1. A county social services  district
which  has  elected,  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this  title, to
administer   veteran  assistance  shall  be  responsible  for  providing
veteran assistance,  and the expense thereof, to:
(a)  persons  residing  or found therein, subject to  reimbursement by
the state;
(b) persons residing or found in any town  in  the  county,  when  the
expense  of providing safety net assistance to persons residing or found
in such towns is a county charge pursuant to the provisions  of  section
seventy-two and section seventy-three of this chapter;
(c)  persons  residing  or found in a city forming part of the  county
social services district, when  the  expense  of  providing  safety  net
assistance to persons  residing or found in such city is a county charge
pursuant   to   the   provisions  of  section  seventy-two  and  section
seventy-three of this chapter.
2. A  town  responsible  for  the  expense  of  providing  safety  net
assistance  to  persons  residing  or found therein, pursuant to section
sixty-nine, which has elected to administer veteran assistance, pursuant
to the provisions of this title,  shall  be  responsible  for  providing
veteran  assistance  to local charges residing or found therein, and the
expense thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 4 - Veteran Assistance › 172 - Moneys to Be Provided.

§  172.  Moneys  to  be  provided. 1. The social services official  of
  every county, city or town responsible for veteran assistance, under the
  provisions of this title, shall include in his or  her  annual  estimate
  for  safety  net  assistance  the  amount  necessary  to  carry  out the
  provisions of this title in such county, city or town.
2. Legislative bodies shall make appropriations and  raise  money  for
  veteran assistance in the same manner as for safety net assistance.