State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > New-york > Sos > Article-6 > Title-5-c > 410-v§ 410-v. Allocation of block grant funds. 1. The part of the block that is determined to be available to social services districts for child care assistance shall be apportioned among the social services districts by the department according to an allocation plan developed by the department and approved by the director of the budget. The allocation plan shall be based, at least in part, on historical costs and on the availability and cost of, and the need for, child care assistance in each social services district. Annual allocations shall be made on a federal fiscal year basis. 2. Reimbursement under the block grant to a social services district for its expenditures for child care assistance shall be available for seventy-five percent of the district's expenditures for child care assistance provided to those families in receipt of public assistance which are eligible for child care assistance under this title and for one hundred percent of the social services district's expenditures for other eligible families; provided, however, that such reimbursement shall be limited to the social services district's annual state block grant allocation. 3. Any portion of a social services district's block grant allocation for a particular federal fiscal year that is not claimed by such district during that federal fiscal year shall be added to that social services district's block grant allocation for the next federal fiscal year. 4. Any claims for child care assistance made by a social services district for services that occurred from October first, nineteen hundred ninety-six through September thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-seven, other than claims made under title XX of the federal social security act, shall be counted against the social services district's first block grant allocation.
