New York Social Services Law Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 131 - Assistance, Care and Services to Be Given.
1. It shall be the duty of social services officials, insofar as funds are available for that purpose, to provide adequately for those unable to...
- 131-a - Monthly Grants and Allowances of Public Assistance.
1. Any inconsistent provision of this chapter or other law notwithstanding, social services officials shall, in accordance with the provisions of this section and regulations...
- 131-Aa - Monthly Statistical Reports.
1. Reporting requirements. The commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance shall issue, within sixty days of the end of each month, a...
- 131-b - Fees for Services.
If and only to the extent the imposition of a fee is required by federal law and regulation to insure continued full federal financial participation...
- 131-c - Inclusion of Parents and Siblings of a Minor in the Public Assistance Household.
1. For the purposes of determining eligibility for and the amount of assistance payable, the social services district shall, when a minor is named as...
- 131-d - Substance Abuse Rehabilitative and Preventive Services.
1. Any inconsistent provision of this chapter or other law notwithstanding, social services officials shall provide substance abuse services, to eligible needy substance abusers and...
- 131-e - Family Planning Services.
Each social services commissioner shall require that appropriate members of his staff personally advise eligible needy persons periodically of the availability at public expense of...
- 131-f - Retroactive Social Security Benefit Increases.
Any inconsistent provisions of this title, other provisions of this chapter or of any other law notwithstanding, in determining the need for family assistance, a...
- 131-g - Authority to Accept Public and Private Gifts.
The department or a social services district shall have the power to apply for, accept, receive and expend public and private gifts or grants of...
- 131-h - Authority to Operate Family Homes for Adults.
A social services official may be authorized to operate family homes for adults, in compliance with the regulations of the department, if such official applies...
- 131-i - Social Services Districts; Agreements.
* Subject to the provisions of section one hundred nineteen-o of the general municipal law, social services districts may enter into agreements for the performance...
- 131-i*2 - Family Loan Program.
* 131-i. Family loan program. 1. From amounts appropriated for such purpose, the department of labor in consultation with the department is hereby authorized and...
- 131-j - Certain Utility Deposits.
Any inconsistent provision of this chapter or other law notwithstanding, a public assistance recipient shall not be required by any corporation subject to the provisions...
- 131-k - Illegal Aliens.
2. An otherwise eligible applicant or recipient who has been determined to be ineligible for aid to dependent children, home relief or medical assistance because...
- 131-l - Exclusion of Agent Orange Benefits.
A social services official shall disregard as income and resources in any program of public assistance such sums as are required to be disregarded under...
- 131-m - Information on Resource Referral Services.
1. Each social services district shall furnish social services information and resource referral services, in accordance with the provisions of this section and the regulations...
- 131-n - Exemption of Income and Resources.
* 1. The following resources shall be exempt and disregarded in calculating the amount of benefits of any household under any public assistance program: (a)...
- 131-o - Personal Allowances Accounts.
1. Each individual receiving family care, residential care or care in a school for the mentally retarded, or enhanced residential care as those terms are...
- 131-p - Group Health Insurance Benefits; Condition of Eligibility.
Notwithstanding any other inconsistent provision of law and to the extent permissible under federal law, any applicant for or recipient of safety net assistance or...
- 131-q - Electronic Payment File Transfer System Pilot Project.
* 1. The commissioner is empowered to authorize the city social services district of the city of New York to continue the pilot project for...
- 131-r - Liability for Reimbursement of Public Assistance Benefits.
1. Any person who is receiving or has received, within the previous ten years, public assistance pursuant to the provisions of this article, and who...
- 131-s - Payments Made for Utility Service for Recipients of Public Assistance Benefits, Supplemental Security Income Benefits or Additional State Payments.
1. In the case of a person applying for public assistance, supplemental security income benefits or additional state payments pursuant to this chapter, the social...
- 131-t - Periodic Reporting.
A social services official shall require each public assistance or food stamp household which currently is receiving or received earned income to submit periodic reports...
- 131-u - Domestic Violence Services to Eligible Persons.
1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, a social services district shall, in accordance with the provisions of this section and regulations of the department,...
- 131-v - Temporary Emergency Shelter.
1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, and to the extent consistent with federal law, a social services official may contract with a non-profit corporation...
- 131-w - Limitations in the Payment of Rent Arrears.
Districts shall not provide assistance to pay rent arrears, property taxes or mortgage arrears for persons not eligible for home relief, aid to dependent children,...
- 131-x - Reverse Mortgage Loans.
Notwithstanding any other inconsistent provisions of law and to the extent permissible under federal law, regulation or waiver, the proceeds of a reverse mortgage loan...
- 131-z - Child Assistance Program.
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any district may operate a child assistance program as part of the family assistance program...
- 132 - Investigation of Applications.
1. When an application for assistance or care is received, or a social services official is informed that a person is in need of public...
- 132-a - Children Born Out of Wedlock; Special Provisions.
1. When an investigation is required by section one hundred thirty-two and other provisions of this chapter for the purpose of determining the eligibility for...
- 133 - Temporary Preinvestigation Emergency Needs Assistance or Care.
Upon application for public assistance or care under this chapter, the local social services district shall notify the applicant in writing of the availability of...
- 133-a - Contracts for Distribution of Public Assistance Grants.
As permitted or required by regulations of the department, each social services district may contract with an appropriate department or agency of the state or...
- 134 - Supervision.
The social service officials responsible under section one hundred thirty-two for investigating any application for public assistance and care, shall maintain close contact with persons...
- 134-a - Conduct of Investigation.
1. In accordance with regulations of the department of family assistance, any investigation or reinvestigation of eligibility for public assistance and care, other than medical...
- 134-b - Front End Detection System.
In accordance with regulations promulgated by the department, each social services district shall establish procedures to identify, investigate and resolve potential cases of fraud, misrepresentation...
- 135 - Cooperation of Public Welfare Officials.
1. It shall be the duty of every public welfare official to render assistance and cooperate within his jurisdictional powers with every other public welfare...
- 136 - Protection of Public Welfare Records.
1. The names or addresses of persons applying for or receiving public assistance and care shall not be included in any published report or printed...
- 136-a - Information From State Tax Commission and the Comptroller.
1. Section six hundred ninety-seven or any other provision of the tax law shall in no way be construed to restrict the department from obtaining,...
- 137 - Exemption From Levy and Execution.
All moneys or orders granted to persons as public assistance or care pursuant to this chapter shall be inalienable by any assignment or transfer and...
- 137-a - Exemption of Earnings of Recipients From Assignment, Income Execution and Installment Payment Order.
1. All wages, salary, commissions or other compensation paid or payable by an employer to a person while he is in receipt of public assistance...
- 138-a - Responsibility of the Department for Recipients in Family Care.
1. Any inconsistent provision of this chapter or other law notwithstanding, the department shall be responsible for furnishing public assistance and care to mentally disabled...
- 139-a - Special Provisions to Avoid Abuse of Assistance and Care.
1. Any person who shall apply for safety net assistance or family assistance within one year after arrival in this state, shall be presumed to...
- 141 - Burial of the Dead.
1. (a) If a recipient of public assistance or care or other person dies leaving no funds or insurance sufficient to pay the expense of...
- 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...
- 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 the...
- 142-b - Federal Manpower Development Training Act and Elementary and Secondary Education Act Grants or Payments; Effect on Eligibility for Certain Public Assi
142-b. Federal manpower development training act and elementary and secondary education act grants or payments; effect on eligibility for certain public assistance or care. So...
- 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 social services official, the officials...
- 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 public assistance or...
- 143-b - Avoidance of Abuses in Connection With Rent Checks.
1. Whenever a recipient of public assistance and care is eligible for or entitled to receive aid or assistance in the form of a payment...
- 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...
- 144 - Power of Public Welfare Officials and Service Officers to Administer Oaths; Power of Public Welfare Officials to Subpoena Persons Liable for Support a
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 145-b - False Statements; Actions for Treble Damages.
1. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation knowingly by means of a false statement or representation, or by deliberate concealment...
- 145-c - Sanctions.
Any person who, individually or as a member of a family, applies for or receives public assistance and is found by a federal, state or...
- 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...
- 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 access devices which...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 corporation (a) licensed under the provisions...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
Last modified: February 3, 2019