Title SOS, Social Services

§ 139-a. Special provisions to avoid abuse of assistance and care. 1.\nAny person who shall apply for safety net assistance or family\nassistance within one year after arrival in this state, shall be\npresumed to have come into the state for the purpose of receiving public\nassi…

§ 14. Employees; compensation. In addition to his deputies, the\ncommissioner may appoint and remove from time to time, in accordance\nwith law and any applicable rules of the state civil service commission,\nsuch employees as he may deem necessary for the efficient administrati…

§ 141. Burial of the dead. 1. (a) If a recipient of public assistance\nor care or other person dies leaving no funds or insurance sufficient to\npay the expense of his burial, the relatives who survive him who were or\nwould have been responsible for his support, pursuant to sec…

§ 142. Exclusiveness of eligibility requirements. No person receiving\nfederal supplemental security income payments and/or additional state\npayments, or family assistance shall for the same period receive any\nother of such forms of assistance.\n

§ 142-a. Federal economic opportunity act grants or payments; effect\non eligibility for certain public assistance or care.\n Any inconsistent provisions of titles ten and eleven of article five,\nother provisions of this chapter, or of any other law notwithstanding,\nin determi…

§ 142-b. Federal manpower development training act and elementary and\nsecondary education act grants or payments; effect on eligibility for\ncertain public assistance or care. So long as the applicable provisions\nof the federal manpower development and training act, as amended…

§ 143. Information to be given by employers of labor to social\nservices officials, the department, family court and the state\ndepartment of mental hygiene. If requested by an authorized\nrepresentative of the state department of mental hygiene or of the\ndepartment or by any s…

§ 143-a. Information to be given to public welfare officials by retail\ninstalment sellers, small loan companies and sales finance companies.\nIf requested by an authorized representative of the department or by an\nauthority charged with the duty of administering laws relating …

§ 143-b. Avoidance of abuses in connection with rent checks. 1.\nWhenever a recipient of public assistance and care is eligible for or\nentitled to receive aid or assistance in the form of a payment for or\ntoward the rental of any housing accommodations occupied by such\nrecipi…

§ 143-c. Avoidance of abuses in connection with rent security\ndeposits. 1. Whenever a landlord requires that he be secured against\nnon-payment of rent or for damages as a condition to renting a housing\naccommodation to a recipient of public assistance, a local social\nservice…

§ 144. Power of public welfare officials and service officers to\nadminister oaths; power of public welfare officials to subpoena persons\nliable for support and compel production of records. Public welfare\nofficials and service officers shall have power to administer oaths and…

§ 144-a. Information to be given to officials of the department and of\nsocial services districts. Any inconsistent provision of law\nnotwithstanding, if requested by an authorized representative of the\ndepartment or by an official of any town, city or county who is\nresponsibl…

§ 145. Penalties. 1. Any person who by means of a false statement or\nrepresentation, or by deliberate concealment of any material fact, or by\nimpersonation or other fraudulent device, obtains or attempts to obtain,\nor aids or abets any person to obtain public assistance or ca…

§ 145-a. Judgment liens. 1. If any provider of care, services or\nsupplies under the medical assistance program is required to pay any\nfine, penalty or overpayment to the department, a social services\ndistrict or any other social services entity as a result of the\nprovisions …

§ 145-b. False statements; actions for treble damages. 1. (a) It shall\nbe unlawful for any person, firm or corporation knowingly by means of a\nfalse statement or representation, or by deliberate concealment of any\nmaterial fact, or other fraudulent scheme or device, on behalf…

§ 145-c. Sanctions. Any person who, individually or as a member of a\nfamily, applies for or receives public assistance and is found by a\nfederal, state or local criminal, civil or other court or pursuant to an\nadministrative hearing held in accordance with the regulations of …

§ 146. Penalty for the sale or exchange of assistance supplies. 1.\nAny person who shall sell or exchange supplies or articles furnished him\nas assistance or care by any public welfare official or employee of the\npublic welfare district, or dispose of them in any other way tha…

§ 147. Misuse of food stamps, food stamp program coupons,\nauthorization cards and electronic access devices. 1. a. Whoever\nknowingly uses, transfers, acquires, alters, purchases, transports or\npossesses food stamps, food stamp program coupons, authorization cards\nor electron…

§ 148. Penalty for unlawfully bringing a needy person into a public\nwelfare district. No person shall, without legal authority, send or\nbring, or cause to be sent or brought, any needy person into a public\nwelfare district with the purpose of making him a charge on such publi…

§ 149. Penalty for bringing a needy person into the state. 1. Any\nperson who knowingly brings, or causes to be brought, a needy person\nfrom out of the state into this state for the purpose of making him a\npublic charge, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of…

§ 150. Penalty for neglect to report or for making false report. 1.\nAny commissioner of public welfare, deputy commissioner, town or city\npublic welfare officer, service officer, or any officer or employee who\nshall neglect or refuse to render any account, statement or report…

§ 151. Penalties for cashing public assistance checks or accepting\nelectronic benefit transfers from public assistance recipients. 1.\nUnauthorized transactions. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision\ntwo of this section, no person, firm, establishment, entity, or\ncorpor…

§ 152. Payments to the New York public welfare association; attendance\nat conventions of public welfare officials. The legislative body of a\ncounty or city is hereby authorized to include annually in the\nappropriation made for public assistance and care and to raise by\ntaxat…

§ 152-a. Burial reserves for certain recipients of public assistance\nor care from assigned assets. When other provisions of this chapter\nproviding for reserving an amount for the burial of a recipient of\npublic assistance or care, from assets transferred or assigned to a\nsoc…

§ 152-b. Surplus after recovery of cost of public assistance and care;\nunclaimed funds. If, after the full amount expended by a public welfare\ndistrict for the assistance and care of a deceased or other former\nrecipient of public assistance and care, including the federal and…

§ 152-c. Menstrual products. Any provider of temporary shelter that is\nreimbursed from state or state-administered grants or funds shall be\nrequired to provide an adequate number of menstrual products\ncommensurate with an individual's needs, including, but not limited to,\nsa…

§ 152-d. Replacement of stolen public assistance. 1. Notwithstanding\nsection three hundred fifty-j of this article and subdivision eleven of\nsection one hundred thirty-one of this title, and in accordance with\nthis section, public assistance recipients shall receive replaceme…

§ 153. Reimbursement and advances by the state. 1. * Expenditures made\nby social services districts, cities and towns for public assistance and\ncare and its administration, other than foster care services, pursuant\nto this chapter and expenditures made by any Indian tribe for…

§ 153-a. Reimbursement for services to social services districts. 1.\nExpenditures made by a department, bureau, division or other unit of a\ncounty or city for services to, on behalf of, or directly related to the\noperations of a social services district, pursuant to the provi…

§ 153-b. Reimbursement for services. Expenditures made by a social\nservices district for the purposes of this chapter as authorized by\nsection one hundred thirty-one-g of this chapter shall, if approved by\nthe department, be subject to reimbursement by the state not pursuant …

§ 153-f. State reimbursement of home energy grant expenses.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law, expenditures made by social\nservices districts in the form of payments made as home energy grants\npursuant to the provisions of subdivision three-c of section one hundred\n…

* § 153-k. Funding for children and family services. 1. (a)\nExpenditures made by social services districts for child protective\nservices, preventive services provided, as applicable, to eligible\nchildren and families of children who are in and out of foster care\nplacement, i…

§ 157. Definitions. As used in this title. 1. Safety net assistance\nmeans allowances pursuant to section one hundred thirty-one-a of this\narticle for all support, maintenance and need, and costs of suitable\ntraining in a trade to enable a person to become self-supporting,\nfu…

§ 158. Eligibility. 1. A person is eligible for safety net assistance\nwho is financially needy as determined in accordance with title one of\nthis article and the regulations promulgated thereunder, is not in\nsanction status for a program authorized by this chapter and:\n (a) …

§ 159. Safety net assistance. 1. Safety net assistance shall be\nprovided in amounts determined in accordance with article five and,\nwhere applicable, section one hundred seventeen of this chapter in the\nfollowing manner.\n (a) Cash assistance. Safety net assistance shall be g…

§ 16. Offices of the Department. The department shall be provided\nwith suitably furnished rooms for its offices. The principal office of\nthe department shall be in the county of Albany.\n

§ 160-a. Unexpended welfare balances. 1. Notwithstanding the\nprovisions of any general special or local law, where a city is no\nlonger responsible for the cost of public assistance or care or any form\nthereof as provided by sections seventy-two and seventy-three of this\nchap…

§ 163. Application. The provisions of any city charter or other local\nor special law forbidding the granting of outdoor relief shall not apply\nto the granting of home relief under this chapter.\n

§ 165. Recipients authorized to work. Notwithstanding any other\nprovision of law, a social services official may, in his or her\ndiscretion, authorize a recipient of safety net assistance to work and\nretain the income derived therefrom without any diminution or with\npartial d…

§ 168. Definitions. As used in this title:\n 1. Veteran means a person who has served in the armed forces of the\nUnited States or who was a recipient of the armed forces expeditionary\nmedal, navy expeditionary medal or marine corps expeditionary medal for\nparticipation in ope…

§ 169. Eligibility. Each of the following persons who is a resident of\nthe state on the date of making application for veteran assistance shall\nbe eligible for such assistance if he or she is unable to provide for\nhimself or herself, or is unable to secure support from a lega…

§ 17. Powers and duties of the commissioner. The commissioner shall\n (a) determine the policies and principles upon which public\nassistance, services and care shall be provided within the state both by\nthe state itself and by the local governmental units within the limits\nhe…

§ 170. Character. Except as hereinafter otherwise prescribed, veteran\nassistance shall be granted in cash provided, however, that in an\nindividual case where the granting of cash may be deemed impracticable,\nveteran assistance may be granted in whole or in part by order.\n

§ 171. Responsibility; county social services districts; city social\nservices districts; cities; towns. 1. A county social services district\nwhich has elected, pursuant to the provisions of this title, to\nadminister veteran assistance shall be responsible for providing\nveter…

§ 172. Moneys to be provided. 1. The social services official of\nevery county, city or town responsible for veteran assistance, under the\nprovisions of this title, shall include in his or her annual estimate\nfor safety net assistance the amount necessary to carry out the\npro…

§ 173. Election to administer veteran assistance by county public\nwelfare district; organization. 1. When a majority of the veteran\norganizations in a county, by and through their respective county\ndivisions, file with the clerk of the board of the supervisors of the\ncounty,…

§ 174-b. Authorization of veteran assistance in towns. 1. The town\nboard of a town responsible for the expense of providing safety net\nassistance to persons residing or found therein, upon the presentation\nof a petition to it by one or more posts, camps or garrisons of one or…

§ 175. Administration of veteran assistance in New York city. 1. In\nthe city of New York, veteran assistance committee means each welfare\ncommittee chosen by the county unit of each veteran organization.\n 2. In the city of New York, veteran assistance shall be paid or\ngrante…

§ 176. Veteran advisory committees; duties. 1. (a) In every county,\ncity or town which has elected to furnish veteran assistance, pursuant\nto the provisions of this title, in which there are more than one\nveteran organization or more than one post, camp or garrison of any\nve…

§ 177. Care in public homes; consent of veteran or other eligible\npersons. Any person eligible for veteran assistance may receive care in\na public home with his consent.\n