Bill Text: NY S07472 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Determines that disability compensation or benefits received by veterans from the United States department of veterans affairs are not to be treated as income or resources for purposes of determining eligibility for means-tested programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S07472 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07472-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7472

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    October 25, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to determining that  disa-
          bility  compensation  or benefits received by veterans from the United
          States department of veterans affairs are not to be treated as  income
          or  resources for purposes of determining eligibility for means-tested
          programs

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The military law is amended by adding a new section 235-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 235-b. Income and resources not to include United States  department
     4  of  veterans  affairs  disability  compensation or benefits. 1. Notwith-
     5  standing any inconsistent provision  of  law,  the  terms  "income"  and
     6  "resources" for the purpose of determining eligibility for or the amount
     7  of  benefits under any means-tested state or state assisted or federally
     8  assisted program including but not limited to programs of public assist-
     9  ance and care,  including  family  assistance,  safety  net  assistance,
    10  medical  assistance,  title  XX  of  the social security act, food stamp
    11  program, the program of additional state payments  to  persons  eligible
    12  for  supplemental security income, the low income home energy assistance
    13  program and  grants,  loans  and  scholarships  and  other  means-tested
    14  programs  for  educational  assistance,  shall  not  include benefits or
    15  payments received from the United States department of veterans  affairs
    16  for  veterans  affairs disability compensation or veterans affairs disa-
    17  bility benefits.   The foregoing requirements shall  not  apply  to  any
    18  means-tested  federally  assisted  program  where  the exclusion of such
    19  disability benefits or payments received from income  is  expressly  and
    20  unanimously prohibited by federal law, rule or regulation.
    21    2.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, any application
    22  for any means-tested state  or  state  assisted  or  federally  assisted

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13038-03-1

        S. 7472                             2

     1  program  including  but not limited to programs of public assistance and
     2  care,  including  family  assistance,  safety  net  assistance,  medical
     3  assistance, title XX of the social security act, food stamp program, the
     4  program  of  additional  state  payments to persons eligible for supple-
     5  mental security income, the low income home  energy  assistance  program
     6  and  grants,  loans and scholarships and other means-tested programs for
     7  educational assistance, shall clearly and explicitly inform  any  appli-
     8  cant  on  such  application  that  United  States department of veterans
     9  affairs disability compensation and United States department of veterans
    10  affairs disability benefits are not income or resources for the purposes
    11  of determining eligibility for or  the  amount  of  benefits  under  any
    12  means-tested  state  or state assisted or federally assisted program and
    13  shall clearly direct such applicant  not  to  include  veterans  affairs
    14  disability  compensation  or  veterans  affairs  disability  benefits as
    15  income or resources when completing such  application.    The  foregoing
    16  requirements  shall  not  apply  to  any means-tested federally assisted
    17  program where the exclusion of  such  disability  benefits  or  payments
    18  received  from income is expressly and unanimously prohibited by federal
    19  law, rule or regulation.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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