S 182 NY
Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income
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Summary
This bill increases the federal poverty level requirement for public assistance recipients who receive a one-time earned income disregard following job entry. The bill increases the income cap from 200% to 400% of the federal poverty level, allowing recipients with higher total income to still qualify for the one-time disregard of earned income. The disregard continues to apply for no more than six consecutive months from initial job entry and follows the recipient if they move to another social services district.
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Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry.
Sponsor (1)
- Roxanne J. Persaud Democratic · primary
3 coauthors / cosponsors
- Jeremy Cooney Democratic · cosponsor
- James Sanders Jr. Democratic · cosponsor
- Jessica Scarcella-Spanton Democratic · cosponsor
Action history (18)
- Jan 8, 2025 REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES · upper
- Jan 22, 2025 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE · upper
- Mar 11, 2025 1ST REPORT CAL.522 · upper
- Mar 12, 2025 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
- Mar 13, 2025 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
- Jun 10, 2025 PASSED SENATE · upper
- Jun 10, 2025 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
- Jun 10, 2025 REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 DIED IN ASSEMBLY · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 RETURNED TO SENATE · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES · upper
- Jan 20, 2026 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE · upper
- May 12, 2026 1ST REPORT CAL.1035 · upper
- May 13, 2026 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
- May 14, 2026 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
- May 18, 2026 PASSED SENATE · upper
- May 18, 2026 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
- May 18, 2026 REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS · lower
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S00182 Summary: BILL NO S00182   SAME AS SAME AS A04317
  SPONSOR PERSAUD   COSPNSR COONEY, SANDERS, SCARCELLA-SPANTON   MLTSPNSR   Amd §131-a, Soc Serv L   Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
182
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025 ___________
Introduced by Sens. PERSAUD, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the federal poverty level requirement for recipients of social services where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry for up to six consecutive months
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of 2 section 131-a of the social services law, as added by section 2 of part 3 X of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows: 4 (xiii) once during the lifetime of a recipient of public assistance, 5 all of the earned income of such recipient will be disregarded following 6 job entry, provided that such exemption of income for purposes of public 7 assistance eligibility shall be for no more than six consecutive months 8 from the initial date of obtaining such employment and that the recipi- 9 ent's total income shall not be more than [ two ] four hundred percent of 10 the federal poverty level. In the event a recipient moves from one to 11 another social services district, this disregard shall follow the recip- 12 ient. The commissioner shall seek any federal waiver necessary to 13 effectuate the one-time earned income disregard pursuant to this subdi- 14 vision. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00855-01-5
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