S182 • 2025

Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income

Active

The official status still shows this bill as active or still awaiting another formal step.

Sponsor: Roxanne J. Persaud
Last action: 2026-05-18
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income

Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry.

What This Bill Does

Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry.

Limits and Unknowns

This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

2026-05-18 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-05-18 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-05-18 Assembly
REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2026-05-14 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-13 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-12 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1035
2026-01-20 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-01-07 Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
2026-01-07 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES
2025-06-10 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2025-06-10 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-06-10 Assembly
REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2025-03-13 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-03-12 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-03-11 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.522
2025-01-22 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2025-01-08 Senate
REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

Official Summary Text

Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income
Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           182

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       (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