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2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 4 - Veteran Assistance › 174-B - Authorization of Veteran Assistance in Towns.

§  174-b.  Authorization  of  veteran assistance in towns. 1. The town
  board of a town responsible for the  expense  of  providing  safety  net
  assistance  to  persons residing or found therein, upon the presentation
  of a petition to it by one or more posts, camps or garrisons of  one  or
  more   veteran  organizations  in  the  town,  requesting  that  veteran
  assistance be  authorized by the local social services officer, may,  by
  resolution  adopted  by  majority  vote,  authorize and direct the local
  social services officer to authorize and furnish veteran  assistance  to
  persons  residing  or  found  therein.    Thereafter,  the  local social
  services officer shall have, exercise and perform the  same  powers  and
  duties  with  relation  to  veteran  assistance as he has, exercises and
  performs with relation to safety net assistance.
2. When the town board of a town has authorized and directed the local
  social services officer to authorize and furnish veteran assistance,  if
  neither the local social services officer, or the supervisor of the town
  authorized  to  act  as  such  official,  nor the assistant local social
  services officer, if there be one, is a veteran, as herein defined,  the
  town  board  may appoint, or authorize the local social services officer
  to appoint, a veteran, as herein defined, as a deputy or assistant local
  social service officer.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 4 - Veteran Assistance › 175 - Administration of Veteran Assistance in New York City.

§  175.  Administration of veteran assistance in New York city. 1.  In
  the city of New York, veteran assistance committee  means  each  welfare
  committee chosen by the county unit of each veteran organization.
2.  In  the  city  of  New  York,  veteran assistance shall be paid or
  granted direct to  the  beneficiaries  by  the  commissioner  of  public
  welfare  through  the  veterans  division  of  the  department of public
  welfare on a written recommendation  signed  by  three  members  of  the
  veteran  assistance  committee  of  the  county  in  which the applicant
  resides.
3. The comptroller of the city of New York shall, out  of  the  amount
  appropriated for such assistance, provide a cash fund to be placed under
  the  control  of the commissioner from which to pay such assistance, and
  he shall replenish said fund upon  presentation  of  properly  receipted
  recommendations  by  the  county  veteran  assistance committees for the
  amounts paid out of said fund.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 4 - Veteran Assistance › 178 - Veteran Assistance Financing; State Reimbursement.

§  178.  Veteran  assistance  financing;  state  reimbursement.    All
  provisions of this chapter or of any other law relating to the financing
  of safety net assistance by counties, cities and towns, or reimbursement
  by the state for safety net assistance expenditures  made  by  counties,
  cities  and towns, shall apply with the same force and effect to veteran
  assistance.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 5 - Public Institutional Care for Adults › 193 - Public Homes.

§ 193. Public homes. 1. Each public welfare district may establish and
  maintain  a  public home, which may include an infirmary for the care of
  chronically sick patients in addition to  facilities  for  the  care  of
  acutely ill patients, and may operate a farm in connection therewith, or
  may  contract  with  another  public  welfare  district for the care and
  maintenance of persons in need of institutional care who are  unable  to
  pay  for  such  care.  If  facilities are available in a public home the
  commissioner of public welfare may establish regulations authorizing the
  admission and care therein of persons in need of institutional care  who
  are  able  and  willing  to  pay,  in whole or in part for such care and
  prescribing the conditions under which such admissions may  be  made.  A
  person in need of institutional care who is unable to pay therefor shall
  not  be  refused  care in the public home operated and maintained by the
  public welfare district in which he resides or is  found,  when  persons
  able to pay for their care are receiving care in such home.
2. If the state commissioner of social welfare shall approve, a public
  welfare  district  may  use  a  building or buildings formerly used as a
  tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium, or as a part thereof, for a  public
  home, a public home infirmary or an infirmary of a public home.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 5 - Public Institutional Care for Adults › 194-A - Additional Power of Work Assignment Granted to Commissioner of Public Welfare of Monroe County.

§  194-a.  Additional power of work assignment granted to commissioner
  of public welfare of Monroe county. When, pursuant to the provisions  of
  subdivision  eight of section one hundred ninety-four of this title, the
  commissioner of public welfare of Monroe county deems  it  advisable  to
  assign work to an incarcerated individual, such work may be assigned and
  performed in or about not only the public home, farm and garden but also
  any  other property maintained under his supervision. The payment of any
  reward pursuant to such subdivision eight shall not be deemed,  for  the
  purposes  of  any law, to make the incarcerated individual receiving the
  same an employee of the public home or of the county or city maintaining
  such home or such other property  maintained  under  the  commissioner's
  jurisdiction.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 5 - Public Institutional Care for Adults › 195 - Medical Care.

§ 195. Medical care. 1. Each incarcerated individual shall be examined
by  the attending physician or physicians as soon after admission to the
public home as practicable.
2. A medical record shall be kept for each incarcerated individual, in
which  shall  be  recorded  his  or  her  condition  on  admission,  the
physician's  recommendation  of  the type of care to be given him or her
and  any  medical  attention  given  to  the   incarcerated   individual
subsequent to the examination on admission.
3.  The  physician  shall  be  responsible  for the medical care given
incarcerated individuals who are ill, and shall give such orders  as  he
considers  necessary  for  their  welfare. He or she shall (a) visit the
public home at regular intervals and shall re-examine  the  incarcerated
individuals  periodically,  as  the need of the incarcerated individuals
may require,
(b) also visit the public home, on call of the superintendent, in case
of the illness of any incarcerated individual,
(c) make such recommendations to the commissioner of public welfare as
to changes,  improvements  and  additional  equipment  as  he  may  deem
necessary  for the adequate care of the incarcerated individuals of such
home.
4. Any physician who accepts an appointment as attending physician  to
the  incarcerated  individuals  of  a  public home shall be obligated to
carry out the provisions of this section. The commissioner  may  dismiss
an attending physician who fails to fulfill such duties.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 5 - Public Institutional Care for Adults › 196 - Report on Needs of Incarcerated Individuals of Public Homes.

§ 196. Report on needs of incarcerated individuals of public homes. It
  shall be the duty of the commissioner of public welfare to report to the
  legislative body as to the needs of the home and to make recommendations
  of  any  changes,  improvements, additional equipment or other provision
  which he or she may consider necessary to provide adequate care for  the
  incarcerated individuals.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 5 - Public Institutional Care for Adults › 197 - Incarcerated Individuals' Right of Appeal.

§  197.  Incarcerated  individuals'  right of appeal. Any incarcerated
  individual of a public home, who considers himself or herself to have  a
  cause  for complaint against any officer or employee of the public home,
  shall have the right of appeal to the superintendent of the public home,
  and to the commissioner of public welfare.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 5 - Public Institutional Care for Adults › 198 - Control of Incarcerated Individuals.

§  198.  Control  of  incarcerated  individuals.  If  any incarcerated
  individual shall wilfully disobey the rules of the home in such a way as
  to be detrimental to the welfare of the other incarcerated  individuals,
  the  commissioner  may  institute  a  proceeding in a court of competent
  jurisdiction  against  such  incarcerated  individual   for   disorderly
  conduct.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 5 - Public Institutional Care for Adults › 199 - Power of Commissioner of Public Welfare to Detain Certain Incarcerated Individuals.

§  199.  Power  of  commissioner  of  public welfare to detain certain
  incarcerated individuals. The commissioner of public welfare shall  have
  power to detain in the public home, pending a vacancy for such person in
  a  state  institution,  a  person  over  the age of sixteen who has been
  certified as an individual with a developmental disability in accordance
  with  the  provisions  of  the  mental  hygiene  law  and  for  whom  an
  application for admission to a state institution has been made. Whenever
  the  commissioner  shall  so  detain  an  incarcerated individual in the
  public home he or she shall at  once  notify  the  state  department  of
  mental hygiene.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 5 - Public Institutional Care for Adults › 200 - Powers and Duties of the Commissioner of Public Welfare in Relation to the Public Farm.

§  200.  Powers  and  duties  of the commissioner of public welfare in
  relation to the public farm. If the legislative body of a public welfare
  district shall authorize the maintenance of a public farm in  connection
  with the public home, the commissioner of public welfare shall
1. be responsible for the management of the public farm,
2.  utilize  the  labor of such of the incarcerated individuals of the
  public home as may in the judgment of the attending physician be able to
  work on the farm,
3. make all purchases necessary for the operation of the  public  farm
  unless such powers have been vested in some other purchasing agency,
4.  sell  such  surplus produce and proceeds of such farm and labor as
  may remain after the needs of the incarcerated individuals of the public
  home have been supplied,
5. employ, within  the  limits  of  the  appropriation  made  for  the
  purpose,  such  laborers  as  may be necessary for the management of the
  farm,
6. keep a record of the work of the farm, including the labor  of  the
  incarcerated  individuals  of  the  public  home  on the farm and of the
  produce and proceeds of the farm supplied for  the  use  of  the  public
  home, with the estimated value of such produce and proceeds,
7.  when  an  appropriation  has been made for the purpose, appoint an
  officer who shall be responsible for exercising such of the  powers  and
  carrying  out such of the duties above mentioned as the commissioner may
  direct,
8. make an annual report to the legislative  body  in  regard  to  the
  receipts  and  disbursements  of  the  public  farm  and the cost of its
  operation.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 5 - Public Institutional Care for Adults › 202 - Construction and Administration of Public Homes.

§ 202. Construction and administration of public homes. 1. No building
  to be used as a public home shall be constructed, or remodeled, in whole
  or  in  part,  except  on  plans  and designs approved in writing by the
  department provided that such approval in writing in  the  city  of  New
  York  shall  be  by  the  mayor  of said city, and except that plans and
  designs for the construction of or remodeling in whole or in part  of  a
  public  home  infirmary,  or  the  infirmary  of a public home, shall be
  approved in accordance with the provisions of  article  twenty-eight  of
  the public health law.
2.  It  shall be the duty of the department to send to the legislative
  body and the public welfare official  in  charge  of  a  public  home  a
  written  statement as to any abuses, defects or evils, which it may find
  in  the  public  home  or  in  the  administration  thereof,  and   such
  legislative body and official shall take action to remedy such condition
  in accordance with such advice.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 6 - Additional State Payments for Eligible Aged, Blind and Disabled Persons › 207 - Declaration of Purpose.

§  207.  Declaration  of  purpose. The legislature hereby declares its
  commitment to meeting the income  needs  of  aged,  blind  and  disabled
  persons who are receiving basic supplemental security income benefits or
  whose  income  and  resources, though above the standard of need for the
  supplemental security income program, is not sufficient  to  meet  those
  needs.  In  order  to  maintain  assistance  for such persons at a level
  consistent with their needs, and in  order  to  fully  employ  available
  federal  aid  for  the  benefit  of such persons residing in this state,
  there is hereby established a state-wide  program  of  additional  state
  payments for aged, blind and disabled persons.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 6 - Additional State Payments for Eligible Aged, Blind and Disabled Persons › 212 - Responsibility; Financing.

§  212.  Responsibility;  financing.  1.  If  there is no agreement in
effect for federal administration of additional state payments  pursuant
to  section  two  hundred  eleven of this title, the commissioner of the
office of temporary and disability assistance shall be  responsible  for
providing  such  payments to eligible residents of the state as required
by this title and shall:
(a) accept and process applications for additional state  payments  to
be made pursuant to this title;
(b)  determine  eligibility  for  and  the  amount of additional state
payments in accordance with this title;
(c) redetermine eligibility periodically as the  office  may  require;
provided,  however,  that  any  such  redeterminations  shall be no more
frequent than provided by  the  applicable  regulations  of  the  United
States social security administration; and
(d)  take  all other actions necessary to effectuate the provisions of
this title.
2. If there is in effect an agreement for the  federal  administration
of  additional state payments, the state shall be responsible for paying
to the secretary an amount equal to: (a) the amount expended  under  the
state's  programs of old age assistance, assistance to the blind and aid
to the disabled during the calendar year, nineteen hundred  seventy-two,
less   any   federal   funds   properly  received  on  account  of  such
expenditures; plus (b) any amounts in addition to such  sum  as  may  be
required by the agreement.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 7 - Services for the Aged, Blind or Disabled › 250 - Declaration of Object; Definitions.

§  250.  Declaration of object; definitions. 1. In order for the state
  to receive federal aid under title six of the  federal  social  security
  act,  rehabilitation and other services shall be furnished in accordance
  with the provisions  of  this  title  to  help  needy  persons  who  are
  sixty-five  years  of age or older, are blind, or are disabled to attain
  or retain capability for self-support or  self-care  or  to  prevent  or
  reduce dependency.
2.  When  used  in this title, services shall be construed to include,
  but not be limited to,  protective  services,  health-related  services,
  self-support   services   for   the   handicapped,  homemaker  services,
  housekeeping  services,  special  services  for   the   blind,   housing
  improvement   and   assistance  services,  home  delivered  meals,  home
  management and other functional educational services, services to adults
  requiring care in suitable substitute homes,  family  planning  services
  and  such  other services as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes
  of this title.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 7 - Services for the Aged, Blind or Disabled › 251 - Federal Aid; State Plan.

§  251.  Federal  aid;  state plan. 1. The department shall submit the
  plan required by title six of the federal social  security  act  to  the
  department  of  health,  education  and welfare for approval pursuant to
  such title and act, so that the state may receive federal aid under such
  title.   The department shall act for  the  state  in  any  negotiations
  relative  to  the  submission and approval of such plan and may make any
  arrangement not inconsistent with law  which  may  be  required  by  the
  federal  social  security  act to obtain and retain such approval and to
  secure for the state the benefits of the provisions of such  title.  The
  department  shall make such regulations not inconsistent with law as may
  be necessary to make such plan conform to the provisions of  such  title
  and  any  rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto. The department
  shall make reports to such federal department in  the  form  and  nature
  required  by it and in all respects comply with any request or direction
  of such  federal  department  which  may  be  necessary  to  assure  the
  correctness and verification of such reports.
2. The department of taxation and finance shall accept and receive any
  and  all  grants  of  money  awarded to the state under title six of the
  social security act for federal aid for services for the aged, blind  or
  disabled. All monies so received shall be deposited by the department of
  taxation and finance in a special fund or funds and shall be used by the
  state  exclusively  for services for the aged, blind or disabled and the
  administration thereof under the provisions of this  title.  Such  money
  shall  be  paid  from  such  fund  or  funds on audit and warrant of the
  comptroller on vouchers of or certification by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 7 - Services for the Aged, Blind or Disabled › 252 - Responsibility.

§  252.  Responsibility.  1.  Except as provided in subdivision two of
this section or any  other  provisions  of  this  chapter,  each  social
services  district  shall  furnish  services  to  the  persons  eligible
therefor who reside in its territory, subject to  reimbursement  by  the
state  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  and to
supervision by the department.
2. (a) If the state's plan makes provision for services to be provided
to  eligible  persons  cared  for  in  certain  state  institutions   or
facilities,  the  department,  or  other appropriate state department or
agency acting pursuant  to  an  agreement  with  the  department,  shall
furnish services to such persons.
(b)  There  shall  be such cooperative arrangements, between and among
the department, and the state departments  of  health,  mental  hygiene,
education  and other appropriate state departments and agencies as shall
be necessary to assure that there will be compliance  with  federal  law
and regulation and that the objectives of this title will be effectively
accomplished.
(c)  Services  for  the  aged,  blind  or  disabled  persons  shall be
administered uniformly  throughout  the  state,  except  when  otherwise
required  or  permitted  by  the department which shall first obtain the
approval of the secretary of health, education and welfare.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 7 - Services for the Aged, Blind or Disabled › 253 - Application for Services.

§  253.  Application for services. 1. A person requesting services for
  the aged, blind or disabled may make his application therefor in  person
  or  through another in his behalf to the social services official of the
  county or city in which the applicant resides or is found.
2. Applications by or on behalf of persons under care in  institutions
  or  facilities  operated by the state shall be made to the department or
  its agent, except as otherwise permitted or required by  regulations  of
  the department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 7 - Services for the Aged, Blind or Disabled › 254 - Eligibility.

§  254. Eligibility. Services for the aged, blind or disabled shall be
  provided any aged, blind or disabled person who requires such  services;
  who  is  a  resident  of the state on the date of application and who is
  receiving or  is  an  applicant  for  benefits  under  the  supplemental
  security  income  and  additional state payments for the aged, blind and
  disabled program or is receiving or an applicant for authorized payments
  to aged, blind or disabled individuals ineligible for such program.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 7 - Services for the Aged, Blind or Disabled › 255 - Character and Adequacy of Services.

§  255. Character and adequacy of services. 1. It shall be the duty of
  social services officials, insofar  as  funds  are  available  for  that
  purpose,  to  provide  adequately  for  services  for the aged, blind or
  disabled in accordance with the  provisions  of  this  title  and  other
  applicable  provisions of law. Local funds need not be made available in
  excess of the amount necessary to equal state funds  made  available  to
  such district or limited pursuant to law.
2.  The  amount and nature of the services and the manner of providing
  them, shall be determined by the  social  services  officials  with  due
  regard  to  the conditions existing in each case, and in accordance with
  the regulations of the department.
3. Services which may be provided to persons who  are  under  care  in
  private  or public institutions or facilities shall be furnished only in
  such institutions and facilities as  are  operated  in  compliance  with
  applicable provisions of this chapter or other laws.
4.  Services under this title shall not include any which are required
  to be furnished as  medical  assistance  pursuant  to  title  eleven  of
  article five.
5.  Local  social  services  districts  shall  be authorized, with the
  approval of the department, to station local social  services  employees
  at  federal  social  security  offices  for  the  purpose  of  providing
  information and referral services relating to emergency  assistance  for
  adults and social services to eligible persons.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 7 - Services for the Aged, Blind or Disabled › 256 - Investigation of Applications.

§  256.  Investigation  of  applications.  Whenever an application for
  services is made, an investigation and record shall be promptly made  of
  the circumstances of the applicant in accordance with regulations of the
  department.  The  object of such investigation shall be to ascertain the
  facts supporting the application and to obtain such other information as
  may be required by the department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 7 - Services for the Aged, Blind or Disabled › 257 - Supervision; Regulations.

§  257.  Supervision; regulations. The department shall: 1.  supervise
  the administration of services for the aged, blind or disabled by social
  services officials;
2. Make regulations necessary for the carrying out of  this  title  to
  the   end  that  services  for  the  aged,  blind  or  disabled  may  be
  administered uniformly  throughout  the  state,  except  when  otherwise
  required  or  permitted  by  the  department  with  the  approval of the
  secretary of health, education and welfare.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 7 - Services for the Aged, Blind or Disabled › 258 - Quarterly Estimates; State Reimbursement.

§ 258. Quarterly estimates; state reimbursement. 1. In accordance with
  regulations  of  the  department,  each  social  services district shall
  submit  to  the  department  quarterly  estimates  of  its   anticipated
  expenditures for services for the aged, blind or disabled.
2.  Expenditures  made by social services districts for services under
  this title shall be subject to reimbursement by the state in  accordance
  with  and  to  the extent authorized by section one hundred fifty-three,
  and any applicable provisions  of  law  which  limit  reimbursement  for
  social  services  or authorize the allocation of funds for such services
  among the districts.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 7 - Services for the Aged, Blind or Disabled › 259 - Application of Other Provisions.

§  259. Application of other provisions. 1. Provisions of this chapter
  and other laws relating to public assistance and care  not  inconsistent
  with  this title shall be applied in carrying out the provisions of this
  title.
2. The provisions of any city charter or other local  or  special  act
  which  are  inconsistent  with the provisions of this title shall not be
  applicable to the services provided by this title, nor impair nor  limit
  the statewide operation of this title, according to its terms.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 8 - Emergency Assistance for Aged, Blind and Disabled Persons › 300 - Declaration of Purpose; Definitions.

§  300.  Declaration  of purpose; definitions. 1. Emergency assistance
  for aged, blind and disabled persons with emergency needs which, if  not
  met,  would  endanger the health, safety and welfare of such persons, is
  hereby declared to be a matter of  state  concern  and  a  necessity  in
  promoting  the public health and welfare, until such time as the federal
  supplemental security income program is expanded to  meet  this  federal
  responsibility.  It  is  the  purpose  of  this  title  to  provide such
  assistance to eligible aged, blind and  disabled  persons  who,  in  the
  circumstances  specified in this title, have needs that cannot be met by
  the regular monthly benefit  under  the  federal  supplemental  security
  income  and  additional  state  payments programs. All efforts should be
  undertaken by New York state's congressional delegation to  secure  such
  expansion of the federal program.
2.  As  used  in  this title, "aged, blind and disabled persons" means
  persons who have been determined to be eligible  for  or  are  receiving
  federal  supplemental  security  income benefits and/or additional state
  payments.
3. As used  in  this  title,  the  terms  "emergency  assistance"  and
  "emergency  assistance  for  aged,  blind  and  disabled  persons"  mean
  payments to meet emergency needs  specified  in  section  three  hundred
  three,  made  to  or  for  the  benefit  of persons found to be eligible
  therefor, in accordance with this  title  and  the  regulations  of  the
  department.
4.  As  used  in  this  title, "supplemental security income benefits"
  means payments made by  the  secretary  of  the  federal  department  of
  health,  education  and  welfare  to  aged,  blind  and disabled persons
  pursuant to title sixteen of the social security act.
5. As used in this title, "additional state payments"  means  payments
  by  social  services  districts  or  by  the  secretary  of  the federal
  department of health, education and welfare on behalf of the  state,  to
  aged, blind and disabled persons who are receiving, or who would but for
  their  income  be  eligible  to  receive,  federal supplemental security
  income benefits, made pursuant to title sixteen of  the  federal  social
  security act, public law 93-66, and the provisions of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 8 - Emergency Assistance for Aged, Blind and Disabled Persons › 301 - Responsibility.

§  301.  Responsibility.  1. Subject to reimbursement by the state, in
  accordance with the provisions of this  title  and  regulations  of  the
  department,  each  social  services  district  shall  furnish  emergency
  assistance to aged, blind and disabled  persons  eligible  therefor  who
  reside in such district.
2.  Expenditures properly made by social services districts under this
  title, including costs of administration, shall  be  reimbursed  by  the
  state  in  an amount equal to one-half of such expenditures, after first
  deducting 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 8 - Emergency Assistance for Aged, Blind and Disabled Persons › 302 - Eligibility.

§  302. Eligibility. Emergency assistance shall be granted to an aged,
blind or disabled person who applies for such assistance and who:
(a) Has needs, as specified in section three  hundred  three  of  this
chapter and the regulations of the department, that cannot be met by the
regular  monthly  supplemental security income benefit and/or additional
state payment, or by income or resources not  excluded  by  the  federal
social  security  act  and which, if not met, would endanger the health,
welfare or safety of the individual; and
(b) Is not eligible for assistance under section three hundred fifty-j
of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 8 - Emergency Assistance for Aged, Blind and Disabled Persons › 303-A - Grants of Assistance for Guide Dogs, Hearing Dogs and Service Dogs; Certain Cases.

§ 303-a. Grants of assistance for guide dogs, hearing dogs and service
  dogs;  certain  cases.  1.  It  shall be the duty of the social services
  official to provide assistance, in accordance with  regulations  of  the
  department, to a person with a disability using a guide dog, hearing dog
  or  service  dog  who  has  been  determined  to  be  eligible for or is
  receiving  federal  supplemental   security   income   benefits   and/or
  additional state payments, for the purchase of food for such dog.
2.  Such regulations of the department shall fix an amount of not less
  than thirty-five dollars a month, and  the    method  and  frequency  of
  distribution   and  procedures  for  the  determination  and  periodical
  redetermination of eligibility for such assistance.
3. Such assistance shall not be granted to any person for whom  earned
  income  has  been  exempted  for such purpose pursuant to federal law or
  regulation.
4. The full amount properly  expended  by  social  services  districts
  under   this  section,  including  costs  of  administration,  shall  be
  reimbursed by the state, notwithstanding any inconsistent  provision  of
  section three hundred one of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 8 - Emergency Assistance for Aged, Blind and Disabled Persons › 304 - Application; Verification.

§  304.  Application;  verification.  1. A person requesting emergency
  assistance under this title  shall  make  his  application  therefor  in
  person or through another on his behalf, on such form and in such manner
  as  the  department  may  by  regulation require, to the social services
  official in the county in which the applicant resides.
2. Whenever such application is  made,  an  investigation  and  record
  shall  be  promptly  made  of  the  circumstances  of  the  applicant in
  accordance with the regulations of the department to ascertain the facts
  supporting the application and to obtain such other information  as  may
  be required by the department.
3.  The  social services official shall require that a person applying
  for or receiving emergency assistance  under  this  title  or  his  duly
  designated  representative  be interviewed personally at a time and in a
  manner provided by the regulations of the department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 8 - Emergency Assistance for Aged, Blind and Disabled Persons › 305 - Appeals and Hearings.

§  305.  Appeals  and hearings. If an application for assistance under
  this title is not promptly acted upon or is  denied  or  the  assistance
  granted  is  deemed  inadequate  by  the  applicant or recipient, he may
  appeal to the department in accordance with the  provisions  of  section
  twenty-two  of  this chapter. In scheduling investigations, local social
  services districts shall give priority to  applications  for  assistance
  under this title.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 8 - Emergency Assistance for Aged, Blind and Disabled Persons › 308 - Services.

§  308.  Services.  An application for emergency assistance under this
  title shall be deemed an application for services  pursuant  to  section
  two  hundred fifty-three of this chapter, and services shall be provided
  according to the person's eligibility therefor in accordance with  title
  seven of article five of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 8 - Emergency Assistance for Aged, Blind and Disabled Persons › 309 - Social Services Official as Conservator.

§  309. Social services official as conservator. In appropriate cases,
  a social services official shall initiate a special proceeding  for  the
  appointment  of  a  conservator  pursuant to section 77.03 of the mental
  hygiene law.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 9-A - Equipment Loan Fund for the Disabled › 326-B - Fund Established; Participation; Other Provisions.

§  326-b.  Fund established; participation; other provisions. 1. There
  is hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner  and  the
  comptroller the equipment loan fund for the disabled.
2.  Participation  in  the  loan  of  the  monies of the fund shall be
  available to all disabled persons on the  basis  of  need,  pursuant  to
  regulations of the commissioner.
3.  The  loan  fund  shall  provide  the  disabled  with the financial
  opportunity to purchase or replace essential equipment used by them  for
  daily   living   or  vocational  functioning  following  rehabilitation,
  including,  but  not  limited  to,   prosthesis,   ramps,   wheelchairs,
  wheelchair van lifts, telecommunication devices for the deaf and hard of
  hearing,  devices which allow persons who are blind or visually impaired
  to discern printed materials and adaptive equipment to permit a disabled
  person to operate a motor vehicle but not to purchase or replace a motor
  vehicle itself.
4. Loans shall be made available directly to the disabled person,  the
  parent,  legal  guardian,  or  individual with whom such disabled person
  resides.
5. Where any equipment purchase is approved by the department, a  loan
  shall  be  made  in  an  amount  not to exceed four thousand dollars per
  applicant.
6. The commissioner shall establish regulations governing  payment  of
  interest, repayment periods, certification and approval of purchase, and
  such  other  orders,  rules  and  regulations  as  may  be necessary for
  interpretations, implementation or administration of this article.
7. During the  first  three  years  of  operation  of  the  fund,  the
  department  shall  submit  to  the  governor  and legislature annually a
  summary report setting forth such information as  the  department  deems
  relevant to monitor and evaluate the progress of the fund.
8.  The  fund shall consist of all monies appropriated for the purpose
  of such fund, all monies transferred to such fund pursuant to  law,  all
  monies required by the provisions of this section or any other law to be
  paid  into or credited to this fund, and all monies, including interest,
  paid by borrowers to the fund in repayment of loans made from the fund.
9. Monies of the fund following appropriations made by the legislature
  and allocation by the director of the  budget  to  the  fund,  shall  be
  available  solely  for  the  purpose  of enabling eligible applicants to
  borrow  money  at  less  than  the  prevailing  rates  of  interest  for
  comparable loans.
10. When used in this article, the term "disabled" shall mean a person
  having  a  disability as so defined in section two hundred ninety-two of
  the executive law.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 9-B - Public Assistance Employment Programs › 330 - Definitions.

§ 330. Definitions. 1. Whenever used in this title:
a.  the term "commissioner" means the commissioner of the state office
  of temporary and disability assistance; and
b. the term "department" means  the  state  office  of  temporary  and
  disability assistance.
2. "Net loss of cash income" shall mean the amount by which a family's
  gross  income  less any necessary work-related expenses is less than the
  cash assistance the individual was receiving at the time of receiving an
  offer of employment. Gross income  includes,  but  is  not  limited  to,
  earnings, unearned income and cash assistance.
3.  "Child care" shall refer to any lawful form of care of a child, as
  defined  by  federal  and  state  law  and  regulation,  for  less  than
  twenty-four hours per day.
4.  "Participant"  shall  mean an applicant for or recipient of public
  assistance who volunteers for or is  required  to  participate  in  work
  activities as provided in this title.
5.  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of this chapter or the labor
  law, recipients of public assistance who are required to participate  in
  community  service  or work experience activities authorized pursuant to
  this title shall be included within the  meaning  of  the  term  "public
  employee"  for  the  purposes  of applying section twenty-seven-a of the
  labor law while engaged in community service or work experience programs
  under this  title.  In  addition,  such  recipients  shall  be  provided
  appropriate   workers'   compensation   or   equivalent  protection  for
  on-the-job injuries and tort claims protection on the  same  basis,  but
  not necessarily at the same benefit level, as they are provided to other
  persons  in  the  same  or  similar  positions,  while  participating in
  community service or work experience activities under this title.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 9-B - Public Assistance Employment Programs › 331 - Policies and Purposes.

§  331.  Policies  and  purposes.  1.  It is hereby declared to be the
  policy of the state that  there  be  programs  under  which  individuals
  receiving  public  assistance  will  be  furnished  work  activities and
  employment opportunities, and necessary  services  in  order  to  secure
  unsubsidized   employment  that  will  assist  participants  to  achieve
  economic independence. Such programs shall be established  and  operated
  in  accordance  with the provisions of this title and in compliance with
  federal and state law and regulations.
2.  A social services district may contract  or  establish  agreements
  with  entities  which  comply  with  the  standards to be established in
  regulations by the commissioner to provide  work  activities,  including
  but  not  limited  to,  job  training  partnership  act  agencies, state
  agencies, school districts, boards of cooperative educational  services,
  not-for-profit  community based organizations, licensed trade schools or
  registered  business  schools,  libraries,  post-secondary   educational
  institutions  consistent  with  this  title, and educational opportunity
  centers  and  local  employers.    A  district  shall,  to  the   extent
  practicable   and   permitted   under   federal   requirements,  develop
  performance based contracts or agreements  with  such  entities.    Such
  standards  shall include an evaluation procedure to ensure that services
  offered  by  a  provider  are  sufficient  to  enhance  substantially  a
  participant's  opportunity  to  secure  unsubsidized employment or, when
  coupled with or provided in conjunction with other activities, represent
  part of a comprehensive approach to enabling  a  participant  to  secure
  unsubsidized  employment.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section one
  hundred fifty-three of this article, expenditures pursuant to  contracts
  or  agreements with providers who do not meet the standards for approval
  of providers  as  defined  in  regulations  will  not  be  eligible  for
  reimbursement by the department.
3.  No social services district shall, in the exercising of the powers
  and duties established in this title, permit discrimination on the basis
  of  race,  color,  national  origin,  sex,  religion or handicap, in the
  selection of participants, their  assignment  or  reassignment  to  work
  activities  and  duties,  and  the  separate  use of facilities or other
  treatment of participants.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 9-B - Public Assistance Employment Programs › 332-A - Supportive Services.

§  332-a.  Supportive  services.    A  social services district shall,
  subject to the availability of federal and  state  funds,  provide  such
  supportive  services,  including but not limited to transportation, work
  related expenses, child care for  children  up  to  age  thirteen,  case
  management, and medical assistance in accordance with regulations of the
  department,  to  enable  an  individual  to participate pursuant to this
  title.  Social services districts may continue such services for persons
  who lose eligibility for public assistance if funds for the activity are
  obligated or expended,  or  for  up  to  ninety  days  if  necessary  or
  appropriate   to   assist  individuals  to  become  self-sufficient.  In
  accordance with paragraph (f) of subdivision five of section one hundred
  thirty-one-a of this chapter, each district shall guarantee  child  care
  to  each  individual participating in work activities who requires child
  care to participate in such  activities,  attending  orientation  or  an
  assessment  in  accordance  with  the requirements of this title.   Case
  management  shall  be  provided  for  pregnant  adolescents,  adolescent
  parents  and  at-risk  youth  under eighteen years of age as required by
  title four-B of  article  six  of  this  chapter.  To  the  extent  that
  resources  permit,  case  management also shall be provided (in order of
  priority) to: persons identified in department  regulations  as  at-risk
  youth,  persons  in  the  target  populations  defined  in section three
  hundred thirty of this title, persons whose employability plan indicates
  a need for two or more concurrent activities and  persons  with  limited
  English proficiency.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 9-B - Public Assistance Employment Programs › 333 - Local Plans and Requirements.

§  333.  Local  plans and requirements.  Each social services district
  shall submit to the commissioner for approval a biennial  plan  for  the
  provision  of  education, work, training and supportive services related
  to the operation of work activity programs pursuant to this title.
Such plan shall be developed  in  cooperation  and  coordination  with
  public  and  private education institutions, child care providers, child
  care resource and referral agencies if available in the district,  labor
  unions, libraries, public and private employers, employment and training
  agencies and organizations, and private industry councils established in
  service  delivery  areas  defined  in  subdivision  five of section nine
  hundred seventy-one of the executive law.
Such plan shall be generally available to the public  for  review  and
  comment  for  a  period  of  thirty  days  prior  to  submission  to the
  commissioner.  In accordance with department regulations and  consistent
  with  federal  law  and regulations, such plan shall include, but not be
  limited to, the following:
1. Estimates of the number of participants to be served;
2. A description of available supportive  services  as  prescribed  by
  section three hundred thirty-two-a of this title;
3.  A description of the available activities under this title and the
  estimated capacity of such activities;
4. A description of the district's plan to meet  federal  requirements
  regarding participation and the district's criteria established pursuant
  to  the  provisions of paragraph (b) of subdivision two of section three
  hundred thirty-two of this title;
5.  A list of education and training providers, such as  job  training
  partnership act agencies, educational agencies and other public agencies
  or  private  organizations with which the district expects to enter into
  agreements or contracts with a description of such contracts;
6. A description of the orientation to  be  provided  to  participants
  pursuant to section three hundred thirty-four of this title;
7.  A  description  of  the  assessment  tools chosen and the employee
  qualifications, district administrative unit or contracting entity  that
  will  be  responsible  for  the  assessments  and the development of the
  employability plans;
8. A description of the conciliation procedures to be  made  available
  to  participants  pursuant  to  section  three hundred forty-one of this
  title; and
9. Such additional information as is necessary to comply with  federal
  requirements  and  to  provide  the  report required under section three
  hundred thirty-nine of this title.