2012 New York Consolidated Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 5 - ASSISTANCE AND CARE
Title 6 - (207 - 212) ADDITIONAL STATE PAYMENTS FOR ELIGIBLE AGED, BLIND AND DISABLED PERSONS
212 - Responsibility; financing.

 
    §  212.  Responsibility;  financing.  1.  If  there is no agreement in
  effect for federal administration of additional state payments  pursuant
  to  section  two  hundred  eleven of this title, the commissioner of the
  office of temporary and disability assistance shall be  responsible  for
  providing  such  payments to eligible residents of the state as required
  by this title and shall:
    (a) accept and process applications for additional state  payments  to
  be made pursuant to this title;
    (b)  determine  eligibility  for  and  the  amount of additional state
  payments in accordance with this title;
    (c) redetermine eligibility periodically as the  office  may  require;
  provided,  however,  that  any  such  redeterminations  shall be no more
  frequent than provided by  the  applicable  regulations  of  the  United
  States social security administration; and
    (d)  take  all other actions necessary to effectuate the provisions of
  this title.
    2. If there is in effect an agreement for the  federal  administration
  of  additional state payments, the state shall be responsible for paying
  to the secretary an amount equal to: (a) the amount expended  under  the
  state's  programs of old age assistance, assistance to the blind and aid
  to the disabled during the calendar year, nineteen hundred  seventy-two,
  less   any   federal   funds   properly  received  on  account  of  such
  expenditures; plus (b) any amounts in addition to such  sum  as  may  be
  required by the agreement.