Section 131. Assistance, care and services to be given

Section 131-A. Monthly grants and allowances of public assistance

Section 131-AA. Monthly statistical reports

Section 131-B. Fees for services

Section 131-C. Inclusion of parents and siblings of a minor in the public assistance household

Section 131-D. Substance abuse rehabilitative and preventive services

Section 131-E. Family planning services

Section 131-F. Retroactive social security benefit increases

Section 131-G. Authority to accept public and private gifts

Section 131-H. Authority to operate family homes for adults

Section 131-I. Social services districts; agreements

Section 131-J. Certain utility deposits

Section 131-K. Illegal aliens

Section 131-L. Exclusion of agent orange benefits

Section 131-M. Information on resource referral services

Section 131-N. Exemption of income and resources

Section 131-O. Personal allowances accounts

Section 131-P. Group health insurance benefits; condition of eligibility

Section 131-Q. Electronic payment file transfer system pilot project

Section 131-R. Liability for reimbursement of public assistance benefits

Section 131-S. Payments made for utility service for recipients of public assistance benefits, supplemental security income benefits or additional state payments

Section 131-T. Periodic reporting

Section 131-U. Domestic violence services to eligible persons

Section 131-V. Temporary emergency shelter

Section 131-W. Limitations in the payment of rent arrears

Section 131-X. Reverse mortgage loans

Section 131-Z. Child assistance program

Section 132. Investigation of applications

Section 132-A. Children born out of wedlock; special provisions

Section 133. Temporary preinvestigation grant

Section 133-A. Contracts for distribution of public assistance grants

Section 134. Supervision

Section 134-A. Conduct of investigation

Section 134-B. Front end detection system

Section 135. Cooperation of public welfare officials

Section 136. Protection of public welfare records

Section 136-A. Information from state tax commission and the comptroller

Section SIX. Hundred ninety-seven or any other provision of the tax law shall in no way be construed to restrict the department from obtaining, on behalf of itself or a local social services district, the name, address, social security number, employment history and number of dependents claimed for any individual certified by the department to be a welfare recipient and suspected of abusing, defrauding or otherwise violating the welfare system

Section 137. Exemption from levy and execution

Section 137-A. Exemption of earnings of recipients from assignment, income execution and installment payment order

Section 138-A. Responsibility of the department for recipients in family care

Section 139-A. Special provisions to avoid abuse of assistance and care

Section 141. Burial of the dead

Section 142. Exclusiveness of eligibility requirements

Section 142-A. Federal economic opportunity act grants or payments; effect on eligibility for certain public assistance or care

Section 142-B. Federal manpower development training act and elementary and secondary education act grants or payments; effect on eligibility for certain public assistance or care

Section 143. Information to be given by employers of labor to social services officials, the department, family court and the state department of mental hygiene

Section 143-A. Information to be given to public welfare officials by retail instalment sellers, small loan companies and sales finance companies

Section 143-B. Avoidance of abuses in connection with rent checks

Section 143-C. Avoidance of abuses in connection with rent security deposits

Section 144. Power of public welfare officials and service officers to administer oaths; power of public welfare officials to subpoena persons liable for support and compel production of records

Section 144-A. Information to be given to officials of the department and of social services districts

Section 145. Penalties

Section 145-A. Judgment liens

Section 145-B. False statements; actions for treble damages

Section 145-C. Sanctions

Section 146. Penalty for the sale or exchange of assistance supplies

Section 147. Misuse of food stamps, food stamp program coupons, authorization cards and electronic access devices

Section 148. Penalty for unlawfully bringing a needy person into a public welfare district

Section 149. Penalty for bringing a needy person into the state

Section 150. Penalty for neglect to report or for making false report

Section 151. Penalty for cashing public assistance checks

Section 152. Payments to the New York public welfare association; attendance at conventions of public welfare officials

Section 152-A. Burial reserves for certain recipients of public assistance or care from assigned assets

Section 152-B. Surplus after recovery of cost of public assistance and care; unclaimed funds