New York A 2048: Increases personal needs allowance amounts

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A02048 Summary:

BILL NOA02048 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSolages

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COSPNSRSimon, Shrestha, Smullen, Bronson, Bendett, Kassay, Schiavoni, Kelles, Dinowitz

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§366 & 209, Soc Serv L

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Increases personal needs allowance amounts for individuals who are deemed eligible; requires that payments be subject to an annual adjustment reflecting the latest consumer price index, all items-U.S. city average.

Go to top A02048 Actions:

BILL NOA02048 

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01/14/2025referred to social services

01/07/2026referred to social services

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2048

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, SIMON, SHRESTHA, BENDETT -- read once
 and referred to the Committee on Social Services

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing
 personal needs allowance amounts

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

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph 10 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of
 2 section 366 of the social services law, as amended by section 3 of part
 3 AAA of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (10) (i) A person who is receiving or is eligible to receive federal
 5 supplemental security income payments and/or additional state payments
 6 is entitled to a personal needs allowance as follows:
 7 (A) for the personal expenses of a resident of a residential health
 8 care facility, as defined by section twenty-eight hundred one of the
 9 public health law, the amount of [fifty-five] two hundred dollars per
 10 month, provided further that such amount be subject to an annual adjust-
 11 ment reflecting the latest consumer price index, all items-U.S. city
 12 average, published by the United States bureau of labor statistics,
 13 commencing January first, two thousand twenty-six and recalculated every
 14 January first thereafter;
 15 (B) for the personal expenses of a resident of an intermediate care
 16 facility operated or licensed by the office for people with develop-
 17 mental disabilities or a patient of a hospital operated by the office of
 18 mental health, as defined by subdivision ten of section 1.03 of the
 19 mental hygiene law, the amount of [thirty-five] eighty-nine dollars per
 20 month.
 21 (ii) A person who neither receives nor is eligible to receive federal
 22 supplemental security income payments and/or additional state payments
 23 is entitled to a personal needs allowance as follows:
 24 (A) for the personal expenses of a resident of a residential health
 25 care facility, as defined by section twenty-eight hundred one of the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03850-02-5

 A. 2048 2

 1 public health law, the amount of [fifty] two hundred dollars per month,
 2 provided further that such amount be subject to an annual adjustment
 3 reflecting the latest consumer price index, all items-U.S. city average,
 4 published by the United States bureau of labor statistics, commencing
 5 January first, two thousand twenty-six and recalculated every January
 6 first thereafter;
 7 (B) for the personal expenses of a resident of an intermediate care
 8 facility operated or licensed by the office for people with develop-
 9 mental disabilities or a patient of a hospital operated by the office of
 10 mental health, as defined by subdivision ten of section 1.03 of the
 11 mental hygiene law, the amount of [thirty-five] eighty-nine dollars per
 12 month.
 13 (iii) [Notwithstanding the provisions of clauses (i) and (ii) of this
 14 subparagraph, the] The personal needs allowance for a person who is a
 15 veteran having neither a spouse nor a child, or a surviving spouse of a
 16 veteran having no child, who receives a reduced pension from the federal
 17 veterans administration, and who is a resident of a nursing facility, as
 18 defined in section 1919 of the federal social security act, shall be
 19 equal to such reduced monthly pension [b