New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 18 - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES › Chapter II - Regulations of the Department of Social Services › Subchapter F - Finance; Claims for Reimbursement by Social Services Districts › Article 3 - Maintenance Assistance Reimbursement Claiming › Part 621 - Home Relief Reimbursement Claiming › Section 621.1 - Reimbursement for home relief

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
			 Expenditures for recipients of home relief shall be claimed for reimbursement
			 on schedules and formats prescribed by the department and in accordance with
			 instructions of the department. No amounts for reimbursement shall be claimed
			 as home relief if such amounts may be claimed in whole or in part as
			 expenditures for which reimbursement is available with Federal financial
			 participation or if such amounts should more appropriately be claimed as
			 expenditures under any other program or activity administered by the
			 department.
(b) Expenditures made
			 by social services districts for home relief shall be subject to reimbursement
			 by the State in accordance with the provisions of sections 153 and
			 157  of the Social Services Law if such
			 expenditures reflect payments correctly made to eligible individuals whose
			 standard of need exceeded any available income or resources which are not
			 required to be disregarded by provisions of the Social Services Law or if such
			 expenditures are permitted by other provisions of the Social Services Law,
			 including expenditures for, but not limited to:
(1) tuition fees and other costs of suitable
			 training in a trade or occupation furnished pursuant to Social Services Law to
			 an eligible person to enable that person to become self-supporting or to
			 increase that person's earning capacity;
(2) assistance provided in a family home or
			 boarding home, operated in compliance with the regulations of the
			 department;
(3) on and after
			 January 1, 1974, assistance provided in facilities in which a person is
			 receiving family care or residential care in accordance with the Social
			 Services Law;
(4) assistance
			 provided to persons receiving care in a facility supervised by the Office of
			 Alcoholism and Substance Abuse;
(5)
			 assistance provided to persons receiving care in a residential facility for the
			 mentally disabled approved, licensed or operated by the Office of Mental Health
			 or the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, other than
			 those facilities designated as psychiatric centers or developmental centers by
			 the Mental Hygiene Law;
(6)
			 assistance provided to persons receiving care in a residential care center for
			 adults operated by the Office of Mental Health;
(7) cost of care of needy adults over 18
			 years of age in private institutions, other than hospitals or equivalent
			 medical institutions, and who are not eligible for supplemental security income
			 (SSI) or aid to families with dependent children (AFDC), such cost of care to
			 include maintenance and care furnished by the private institution on
			 authorization of the responsible social services officials, and other necessary
			 services authorized by the social services officials, and furnished to the
			 recipient in the private institutions, but does not include cost of hospital or
			 medical care of any such recipient, nor cost of burial of any such deceased
			 recipient; or
(8) other
			 expenditures designated as home relief by the Social Services Law or department
			 regulation.