N.Y. Social Services Law § 410-y: Maintenance of effort

§ 410-y. Maintenance of effort. 1. Each social services district shall

maintain the amount of local funds spent for child care assistance under

the child care block grant at a level equal to or greater than the

amount the district spent for child care assistance during federal

fiscal year nineteen hundred ninety-five under title IV-A of the federal

social security act, the federal child care development block grant

program and the state low income child care program; provided however, a

social services district for a city of a population of a million or more

shall spend local funds for child care assistance at an amount no less

than three hundred twenty-eight million dollars.

2. If the state fails to meet the level of state and local child care

funding necessary to maintain the federal matching funds for child care

assistance available under title IV-a of the federal social security

act, the state shall withhold funding from those social services

districts which spent a lower amount of local funds for child care

assistance than the amount required by subdivision one of this section,

based on a formula established in department regulations, equal to the

amount of the matching funds which have been lost.