Bill Text: NY A03546 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to monthly grants and allowances of public assistance; increases the earned income disregard to sixty-seven percent and repeals the one hundred eighty-five percent standard of need for public assistance applicants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to social services [A03546 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A03546-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3546
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 28, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. WRIGHT, AUBRY, PEOPLES-STOKES, ROBINSON, CAMARA,
         CLARK, PERRY, PRETLOW -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK --  read
         once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
       AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the
         earned income disregard and to repeal subdivision 10 of section  131-a
         of  such law relating to the earned income cap of the standard of need
         for public assistance applicants
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (iii)  of paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of
    2  section 131-a of the social services law, as amended by chapter  246  of
    3  the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (iii)  [forty-two]  SIXTY-SEVEN  percent of the earned income for such
    5  month of any recipient in a household containing a dependent child which
    6  remains after application of all other subparagraphs of this  paragraph;
    7  provided, however, that such percentage amount shall be adjusted in June
    8  of  each  year,  commencing in nineteen hundred ninety-eight, to reflect
    9  changes in the most recently issued poverty  guidelines  of  the  United
   10  States  Bureau  of  the  Census,  such that a household of three without
   11  special needs, living in a heated apartment in New York city and without
   12  unearned income would become ineligible for assistance with gross  earn-
   13  ings  equal  to the poverty level in such guidelines; provided, however,
   14  that no assistance shall be given to any household with gross earned and
   15  unearned income, exclusive of income described in subparagraphs (i)  and
   16  (vi) of this paragraph, in excess of such poverty level;
   17    S  2.  Subdivision  10  of section 131-a of the social services law is
   18  REPEALED.
   19    S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   20  have become a law and shall apply to aid determined under public assist-
   21  ance programs in months beginning after such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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