As they wait for the stateâs more detailed financial plan, economists and state officials Monday weighed the impacts $2.1 billion in benefits for undocumented New Yorkers in the 2021-22 budget could have on small businesses and the state economy.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the budget, passed almost a week after the midnight April 1 deadline, into law Monday after a late-morning briefing in his Manhattan office. The state Legislature included $2.1 billion in the final budget for an Excluded Workers Fund, or about 290,000 New York residents who lost wages or income after February 2020 because of COVID-related unemployment or inability to work or a COVID-related death or disability.
ALBANY â Members of the state Independent Redistricting Commission are waiting on the state Legislatureâs direction, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign the 2021-22 state budget, to access millions of dollars to start redrawing elective district lines months behind schedule.
The redistricting commission was allocated $4 million in the Legislatureâs $212 billion budget, which passed nearly one week after the midnight April 1 deadline, and matches the commissionâs budget request submitted to the Legislature and the Executive Chamber.
The Assembly proposed the commission receive $7 million in its 2021-22 budget last month. The Senate earmarked the commissionâs requested $4 million included in the final spending plan.
ALBANY â Members of the state Independent Redistricting Commission are waiting on the state Legislatureâs direction, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign the 2021-22 state budget, to access millions of dollars to start redrawing elective district lines months behind schedule.
The redistricting commission was allocated $4 million in the Legislatureâs $212 billion budget, which passed nearly one week after the midnight April 1 deadline, and matches the commissionâs budget request submitted to the Legislature and the Executive Chamber.
The Assembly proposed the commission receive $7 million in its 2021-22 budget last month. The Senate earmarked the commissionâs requested $4 million included in the final spending plan.
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ALBANY â Now that itâs approved, activists are pushing the state to quickly open a program for up to 1.2 million New Yorkers behind on housing payments due to the pandemic to apply for $2.4 billion in federal rent relief in the state Legislatureâs 2021-22 budget and meet congressional spending deadlines.
The stateâs final $212 billion spending plan, which the Assembly adopted Wednesday night nearly one week after the April 1 deadline, included details of New Yorkâs Emergency Rental Assistance Program to provide much-needed rent and utility bill relief to tenants and landlords in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
An estimated range of 800,000 to 1.2 million New York households owe between $1.4 billion and $2.2 billion in back housing payments.