A 4070: 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.
The bill aims to improve the public assistance outreach and support efforts by introducing a user-friendly benefits cliff calculator tool. This tool will help individuals understand how changes to their gross income can affect their eligibility for public assistance programs and their long-term financial self-sufficiency. The tool will be integrated into the department's outreach efforts and made easily accessible on the department's website. State and local employees directly involved in assisting individuals with public assistance benefits will be trained on the use of the tool and its functions. A report will be submitted to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly to track progress in fulfilling the requirements of this section.
| Jan. 07, 2026 | referred to social services |
| Jan. 31, 2025 | referred to social services |
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4070 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2025 ___________ 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