NY A02163

Increases the state payment for personal needs from $25 to $45 per month for individuals receiving SSI or state payments who reside in residential health care facilities, effective January 1, 1988.

Implements an annual 3% cost-of-living adjustment to the $45 personal needs allowance beginning January 1, 2014, and recalculated every January 1 thereafter.

Increases the personal needs allowance from $50 to $75 per month for individuals not receiving SSI or state payments who reside in residential health care facilities, with annual 3% cost-of-living adjustments starting January 1, 2014.

Creates a new $75 per month personal needs allowance for residents of domestic violence victim residential programs that provide three meals per day, subject to annual 3% cost-of-living adjustments commencing January 1, 2014.

Maintains the $5 per month personal needs allowance for residents of intermediate care facilities operated by the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities or patients in hospitals operated by the office of mental health.