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The audit released by New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said a review found that 44% of more than $14.5 billion in personal care claims for 82 million services had no matching electronic ...
Geri Mariano, in wheelchair, delivers remarks during a gathering at the Westchester Disabled On the Move office in Yonkers, March 15, 2024. New York's Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program ...
As many as 3 million New Yorkers may be fraudulently reaping taxpayer-funded Medicaid and other public health insurance benefits at a potential cost of $20 billion a year, a staggering new study ...
The Welfare Reform Act of 1997 (the state response to the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996) created two programs, Family Assistance (FA) and Safety Net Assistance (SNA), to be state-directed and county-administered implementations of the constitutional mandate to aid, care and support the needy.
The New York State Department of Family Assistance (DFA), also known as the Department of Family Services, is a department of the New York state government. [1] Its regulations are compiled in title 18 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations. It is composed of two autonomous offices: [2] [3]
As an English colony, New York's social services were based on the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1598-1601, in which the poor who could not work were cared for in a poorhouse. Those who could were employed in a workhouse. The first Poorhouse in New York was created in the 1740s, and was a combined Poorhouse, Workhouse, and House of Corrections.
Bronx Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres has called for an investigation into claims Gov. Hochul's office rigged a bid to oversee New York's allegedly fraud-ridden $9 billion home care Medicaid program.
Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP) was incorporated in 1944 as the first health insurance plan for public service workers. [9] The company was founded by David M. Heyman with the support of New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who wanted to offer medical services to New Yorkers of “moderate means.” [10] HIP got its first members in 1947.