New York A 4070: Establishes a user-friendly benefits cliff calculator tool

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A04070 Summary:

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Establishes a user-friendly benefits cliff calculator tool that allows users to understand how changes to gross income can affect eligibility for public assistance programs and long-term financial self-sufficiency and sustainability.

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01/31/2025referred to social services

01/07/2026referred to social services

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4070

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 31, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Social Services

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing a
 user-friendly benefits cliff calculator tool

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

 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
 2 98 to read as follows:
 3 § 98. Benefits cliff calculator. The department shall integrate a
 4 user-friendly benefits cliff calculator tool that allows users to under-
 5 stand how changes to gross income can affect eligibility for public
 6 assistance programs and long-term financial self-sufficiency and
 7 sustainability into the department's public assistance outreach and
 8 support efforts, to ensure that all state and local employees who are
 9 directly responsible for assisting individuals in applying or reapplying
 10 for public assistance benefits have access to the benefits cliff calcu-
 11 lator tool and are properly trained on the use of the benefits cliff
 12 calculator tool and its functions, to make the benefits cliff calculator
 13 tool easily accessible on the department's website, and to submit a
 14 report on efforts to fulfill the requirements of this section to the
 15 governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the
 16 assembly no later than November first, two thousand twenty-six.
 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06541-01-5

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