2006 New York Code - Retroactive Social Security Benefit Increases.

 
    §  131-f.    Retroactive  social  security  benefit  increases.    Any
  inconsistent provisions of this title, other provisions of this  chapter
  or  of any other law notwithstanding, in determining the need for family
  assistance, a social services official shall disregard, in  addition  to
  any  other  amounts which are required or permitted to be disregarded in
  determining such need, any retroactive  lump  sum  payment  made  to  an
  individual  under  title  II  of  the  social security act (or under the
  railroad retirement act of nineteen hundred thirty-seven  by  reason  of
  the  first  proviso  in  section  three  (e) thereof), as a result of an
  increase  in  monthly  benefits  under  the  old  age,  survivors,   and
  disability insurance system.