Charge: Align work support benefit eligibility requirements to increase use by low-income working individuals and families.

Recommendations:

3 months
Eliminate multiple income tests across work support benefit programs and within individual work support benefit programs:
Develop matrix of income and resource requirements across state agencies. (DONE. See Appendix A for work support benefit income test and Appendix B for work support benefit program descriptions.)

6-9 months
Eliminate multiple income tests across work support benefit programs and within individual work support benefit programs:
Develop needed statutory and regulatory proposals.

12 months+
Eliminate multiple income tests across work support benefit programs and within individual work support benefit programs:
Advocate, at the state and federal levels, for needed statutory and regulatory flexibility.

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3 months
Align and simplify resource tests to provide program continuity and greater administrative ease:
Develop matrix of resource tests across state agencies. (DONE. See Appendix A for work support benefit income test and Appendix B for work support benefit program descriptions.)

6-9 months
Align and simplify resource tests to provide program continuity and greater administrative ease:
Develop needed statutory and regulatory proposals.

12 months+
Align and simplify resource tests to provide program continuity and greater administrative ease:
Advocate, at the state and federal levels, for needed statutory and regulatory flexibility.

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3 months
Consolidate exemptions to income and resource tests to create universal exemptions:
Develop matrix of exemptions. (DONE. See Appendix C for work support benefit income and resource exclusions.)

6-9 months
Consolidate exemptions to income and resource tests to create universal exemptions:
Develop needed statutory and regulatory proposals.

12 months+
Consolidate exemptions to income and resource tests to create universal exemptions:
Advocate, at the state and federal levels, for needed statutory and regulatory flexibility.

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6-9 months
Eliminate the NYS Household Credit Offset to make the NYS Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) consistent with the federal EITC:
Develop proposal to eliminate the Credit

12 months+
Eliminate the NYS Household Credit Offset to make the NYS Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) consistent with the federal EITC:
Advocate for needed statutory changes.

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