2015 New York Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 5 - ASSISTANCE AND CARE
Title 8 - (300 - 309) EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOR AGED, BLIND AND DISABLED PERSONS
300 - Declaration of purpose; definitions.

  300.  Declaration  of purpose; definitions. 1. Emergency assistance
  for aged, blind and disabled persons with emergency needs which, if  not
  met,  would  endanger the health, safety and welfare of such persons, is
  hereby declared to be a matter of  state  concern  and  a  necessity  in
  promoting  the public health and welfare, until such time as the federal
  supplemental security income program is expanded to  meet  this  federal
  responsibility.  It  is  the  purpose  of  this  title  to  provide such
  assistance to eligible aged, blind and  disabled  persons  who,  in  the
  circumstances  specified in this title, have needs that cannot be met by
  the regular monthly benefit  under  the  federal  supplemental  security
  income  and  additional  state  payments programs. All efforts should be
  undertaken by New York state's congressional delegation to  secure  such
  expansion of the federal program.
2.  As  used  in  this title, "aged, blind and disabled persons" means
  persons who have been determined to be eligible  for  or  are  receiving
  federal  supplemental  security  income benefits and/or additional state
  payments.
3. As used  in  this  title,  the  terms  "emergency  assistance"  and
  "emergency  assistance  for  aged,  blind  and  disabled  persons"  mean
  payments to meet emergency needs  specified  in  section  three  hundred
  three,  made  to  or  for  the  benefit  of persons found to be eligible
  therefor, in accordance with this  title  and  the  regulations  of  the
  department.
4.  As  used  in  this  title, "supplemental security income benefits"
  means payments made by  the  secretary  of  the  federal  department  of
  health,  education  and  welfare  to  aged,  blind  and disabled persons
  pursuant to title sixteen of the social security act.
5. As used in this title, "additional state payments"  means  payments
  by  social  services  districts  or  by  the  secretary  of  the federal
  department of health, education and welfare on behalf of the  state,  to
  aged, blind and disabled persons who are receiving, or who would but for
  their  income  be  eligible  to  receive,  federal supplemental security
  income benefits, made pursuant to title sixteen of  the  federal  social
  security act, public law 93-66, and the provisions of this chapter.