N.Y. Social Services Law § 152-a: Burial reserves for certain recipients of public assistance or care from assigned assets

§ 152-a. Burial reserves for certain recipients of public assistance

or care from assigned assets. When other provisions of this chapter

providing for reserving an amount for the burial of a recipient of

public assistance or care, from assets transferred or assigned to a

social services official, do not apply to a recipient because of the

category of public assistance or care received by him or her, as in the

case of a recipient of safety net assistance, a similar burial reserve

from assigned assets may or shall, as the regulations of the department

may permit or require, be set aside for such recipient; and any such

burial reserve heretofore set aside with the approval of the

department, or in accordance with its requirements, shall be deemed to

have been authorized.