N.Y. Social Services Law § 152-b: Surplus after recovery of cost of public assistance and care; unclaimed funds

§ 152-b. Surplus after recovery of cost of public assistance and care;

unclaimed funds. If, after the full amount expended by a public welfare

district for the assistance and care of a deceased or other former

recipient of public assistance and care, including the federal and state

shares thereof, as determined in accordance with regulations of the

department, and any authorized amount expended for the burial of such

deceased recipient, shall have been recovered and deducted from the net

proceeds of assets which have been transferred or assigned to the public

welfare official by or on behalf of such recipient to insure repayment

of the cost of his assistance and care, any balance or surplus remains,

it shall be credited forthwith by the public welfare district to the

estate or persons entitled thereto; but if unclaimed within four years

thereafter by those entitled thereto it shall be deemed abandoned

property and be paid to the state comptroller pursuant to section

thirteen hundred five of the abandoned property law.