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N.Y. Social Services Law § 139-A Special provisions to avoid abuse of assistance and care
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§ 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…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 14 Employees; compensation
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§ 14. Employees; compensation. In addition to his deputies, the commissioner may appoint and remove from time to time, in accordance with law and any applicable rules of the state civil service commission, such employees as he may deem necessary for the efficient administration …
N.Y. Social Services Law § 141 Burial of the dead
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§ 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…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 142 Exclusiveness of eligibility requirements
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§ 142. Exclusiveness of eligibility requirements. No person receiving federal supplemental security income payments and/or additional state payments, or family assistance shall for the same period receive any other of such forms of assistance.
N.Y. Social Services Law § 142-A Federal economic opportunity act grants or payments; effect on eligibility for certain public assistance or care
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§ 142-a. Federal economic opportunity act grants or payments; effect on eligibility for certain public assistance or care. Any inconsistent provisions of titles ten and eleven of article five, other provisions of this chapter, or of any other law notwithstanding, in determining …
N.Y. Social Services Law § 142-B Federal manpower development training act and elementary and secondary education act grants or payments; effect on eligibility for certai...
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§ 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…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 143 Information to be given by employers of labor to social services officials, the department, family court and the state department of ment...
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§ 143. Information to be given by employers of labor to social services officials, the department, family court and the state department of mental hygiene. If requested by an authorized representative of the state department of mental hygiene or of the department or by any socia…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 143-A Information to be given to public welfare officials by retail instalment sellers, small loan companies and sales finance companies
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§ 143-a. Information to be given to public welfare officials by retail instalment sellers, small loan companies and sales finance companies. If requested by an authorized representative of the department or by an authority charged with the duty of administering laws relating to …
N.Y. Social Services Law § 143-B Avoidance of abuses in connection with rent checks
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§ 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…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 143-C Avoidance of abuses in connection with rent security deposits
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§ 143-c. Avoidance of abuses in connection with rent security deposits. 1. Whenever a landlord requires that he be secured against non-payment of rent or for damages as a condition to renting a housing accommodation to a recipient of public assistance, a local social services of…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 144 Power of public welfare officials and service officers to administer oaths; power of public welfare officials to subpoena persons liable ...
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§ 144. Power of public welfare officials and service officers to administer oaths; power of public welfare officials to subpoena persons liable for support and compel production of records. Public welfare officials and service officers shall have power to administer oaths and ta…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 144-A Information to be given to officials of the department and of social services districts
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§ 144-a. Information to be given to officials of the department and of social services districts. Any inconsistent provision of law notwithstanding, if requested by an authorized representative of the department or by an official of any town, city or county who is responsible fo…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 145 Penalties
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§ 145. Penalties. 1. Any person who by means of a false statement or representation, or by deliberate concealment of any material fact, or by impersonation or other fraudulent device, obtains or attempts to obtain, or aids or abets any person to obtain public assistance or care …
N.Y. Social Services Law § 145-A Judgment liens
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§ 145-a. Judgment liens. 1. If any provider of care, services or supplies under the medical assistance program is required to pay any fine, penalty or overpayment to the department, a social services district or any other social services entity as a result of the provisions of t…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 145-B False statements; actions for treble damages
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§ 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…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 145-C Sanctions
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§ 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 …
N.Y. Social Services Law § 146 Penalty for the sale or exchange of assistance supplies
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§ 146. Penalty for the sale or exchange of assistance supplies. 1. Any person who shall sell or exchange supplies or articles furnished him as assistance or care by any public welfare official or employee of the public welfare district, or dispose of them in any other way than a…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 147 Misuse of food stamps, food stamp program coupons, authorization cards and electronic access devices
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§ 147. Misuse of food stamps, food stamp program coupons, authorization cards and electronic access devices. 1. a. Whoever knowingly uses, transfers, acquires, alters, purchases, transports or possesses food stamps, food stamp program coupons, authorization cards or electronic a…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 148 Penalty for unlawfully bringing a needy person into a public welfare district
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§ 148. Penalty for unlawfully bringing a needy person into a public welfare district. No person shall, without legal authority, send or bring, or cause to be sent or brought, any needy person into a public welfare district with the purpose of making him a charge on such public w…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 149 Penalty for bringing a needy person into the state
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§ 149. Penalty for bringing a needy person into the state. 1. Any person who knowingly brings, or causes to be brought, a needy person from out of the state into this state for the purpose of making him a public charge, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of on…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 150 Penalty for neglect to report or for making false report
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§ 150. Penalty for neglect to report or for making false report. 1. Any commissioner of public welfare, deputy commissioner, town or city public welfare officer, service officer, or any officer or employee who shall neglect or refuse to render any account, statement or report re…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 151 Penalties for cashing public assistance checks or accepting electronic benefit transfers from public assistance recipients
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§ 151. Penalties for cashing public assistance checks or accepting electronic benefit transfers from public assistance recipients. 1. Unauthorized transactions. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision two of this section, no person, firm, establishment, entity, or corporatio…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 152 Payments to the New York public welfare association; attendance at conventions of public welfare officials
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§ 152. Payments to the New York public welfare association; attendance at conventions of public welfare officials. The legislative body of a county or city is hereby authorized to include annually in the appropriation made for public assistance and care and to raise by taxation …
N.Y. Social Services Law § 152-A Burial reserves for certain recipients of public assistance or care from assigned assets
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§ 152-a. Burial reserves for certain recipients of public assistance or care from assigned assets. When other provisions of this chapter providing for reserving an amount for the burial of a recipient of public assistance or care, from assets transferred or assigned to a social …
N.Y. Social Services Law § 152-B Surplus after recovery of cost of public assistance and care; unclaimed funds
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§ 152-b. Surplus after recovery of cost of public assistance and care; unclaimed funds. If, after the full amount expended by a public welfare district for the assistance and care of a deceased or other former recipient of public assistance and care, including the federal and st…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 152-C Menstrual products
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§ 152-c. Menstrual products. Any provider of temporary shelter that is reimbursed from state or state-administered grants or funds shall be required to provide an adequate number of menstrual products commensurate with an individual's needs, including, but not limited to, sanita…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 152-D Replacement of stolen public assistance
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§ 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…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 153 Reimbursement and advances by the state
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§ 153. Reimbursement and advances by the state. 1. * Expenditures made by social services districts, cities and towns for public assistance and care and its administration, other than foster care services, pursuant to this chapter and expenditures made by any Indian tribe for fo…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 153-A Reimbursement for services to social services districts
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§ 153-a. Reimbursement for services to social services districts. 1. Expenditures made by a department, bureau, division or other unit of a county or city for services to, on behalf of, or directly related to the operations of a social services district, pursuant to the provisio…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 153-B Reimbursement for services
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§ 153-b. Reimbursement for services. Expenditures made by a social services district for the purposes of this chapter as authorized by section one hundred thirty-one-g of this chapter shall, if approved by the department, be subject to reimbursement by the state not pursuant to …
N.Y. Social Services Law § 153-F State reimbursement of home energy grant expenses
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§ 153-f. State reimbursement of home energy grant expenses. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, expenditures made by social services districts in the form of payments made as home energy grants pursuant to the provisions of subdivision three-c of section one hundred thir…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 153-K Funding for children and family services
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* § 153-k. Funding for children and family services. 1. (a) Expenditures made by social services districts for child protective services, preventive services provided, as applicable, to eligible children and families of children who are in and out of foster care placement, indep…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 157 Definitions
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§ 157. Definitions. As used in this title. 1. Safety net assistance means allowances pursuant to section one hundred thirty-one-a of this article for all support, maintenance and need, and costs of suitable training in a trade to enable a person to become self-supporting, furnis…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 158 Eligibility
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§ 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) …
N.Y. Social Services Law § 159 Safety net assistance
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§ 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…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 16 Offices of the Department
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§ 16. Offices of the Department. The department shall be provided with suitably furnished rooms for its offices. The principal office of the department shall be in the county of Albany.
N.Y. Social Services Law § 160-A Unexpended welfare balances
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§ 160-a. Unexpended welfare balances. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general special or local law, where a city is no longer responsible for the cost of public assistance or care or any form thereof as provided by sections seventy-two and seventy-three of this chapter …
N.Y. Social Services Law § 163 Application
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§ 163. Application. The provisions of any city charter or other local or special law forbidding the granting of outdoor relief shall not apply to the granting of home relief under this chapter.
N.Y. Social Services Law § 165 Recipients authorized to work
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§ 165. Recipients authorized to work. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a social services official may, in his or her discretion, authorize a recipient of safety net assistance to work and retain the income derived therefrom without any diminution or with partial dimin…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 168 Definitions
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§ 168. Definitions. As used in this title: 1. Veteran means a person who has served in the armed forces of the United States or who was a recipient of the armed forces expeditionary medal, navy expeditionary medal or marine corps expeditionary medal for participation in operatio…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 169 Eligibility
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§ 169. Eligibility. Each of the following persons who is a resident of the state on the date of making application for veteran assistance shall be eligible for such assistance if he or she is unable to provide for himself or herself, or is unable to secure support from a legally…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 17 Powers and duties of the commissioner
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§ 17. Powers and duties of the commissioner. The commissioner shall (a) determine the policies and principles upon which public assistance, services and care shall be provided within the state both by the state itself and by the local governmental units within the limits hereina…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 170 Character
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§ 170. Character. Except as hereinafter otherwise prescribed, veteran assistance shall be granted in cash provided, however, that in an individual case where the granting of cash may be deemed impracticable, veteran assistance may be granted in whole or in part by order.
N.Y. Social Services Law § 171 Responsibility; county social services districts; city social services districts; cities; towns
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§ 171. Responsibility; county social services districts; city social services districts; cities; towns. 1. A county social services district which has elected, pursuant to the provisions of this title, to administer veteran assistance shall be responsible for providing veteran a…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 172 Moneys to be provided
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§ 172. Moneys to be provided. 1. The social services official of every county, city or town responsible for veteran assistance, under the provisions of this title, shall include in his or her annual estimate for safety net assistance the amount necessary to carry out the provisi…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 173 Election to administer veteran assistance by county public welfare district; organization
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§ 173. Election to administer veteran assistance by county public welfare district; organization. 1. When a majority of the veteran organizations in a county, by and through their respective county divisions, file with the clerk of the board of the supervisors of the county, a p…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 174-B Authorization of veteran assistance in towns
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§ 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 mo…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 175 Administration of veteran assistance in New York city
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§ 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 dir…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 176 Veteran advisory committees; duties
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§ 176. Veteran advisory committees; duties. 1. (a) In every county, city or town which has elected to furnish veteran assistance, pursuant to the provisions of this title, in which there are more than one veteran organization or more than one post, camp or garrison of any vetera…
N.Y. Social Services Law § 177 Care in public homes; consent of veteran or other eligible persons
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§ 177. Care in public homes; consent of veteran or other eligible persons. Any person eligible for veteran assistance may receive care in a public home with his consent.