‘Fair Fares’: City Council moves to make it easier for low-income New Yorkers to get half-priced subway and bus rides
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NYC Council drops plan to auto-enroll in benefits over immigrant privacy fears
The City Council passed a drastically pared down benefits auto-enrollment bill Thursday after immigrant privacy and public charge fears helped sink the broader plan to automatically enroll eligible New Yorkers in city benefits.
‘Fair Fares’: City Council moves to make it easier for low-income New Yorkers to get half-priced subway and bus rides
The City Council took a key step on Thursday toward simplifying the onerous enrollment process for the city's program that provides reduced-cost OMNY cards to very low-income riders: Fair Fares. The council overwhelmingly passed a bill — Intro. 248 — requiring the city Department of Social Services (DSS), which oversees the Human Resources Administration…
The New York City Council originally planned to pass a pioneering "auto-enrollment" system for government benefits in the United States. However, due to concerns that personal data could be accessed by the federal government and affect immigration, the City Council ultimately abandoned the original auto-enrollment plan and significantly revised the bill. The revised Bill 248 (Intro. 248) was passed by the City Council on September 24 and is curr…
SNAP in New York: Project seeks to facilitate registration for Fair Fares NYC, the program with 50% discount on subways and eligible buses.
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