Chair Lee on budgeting for Fair Fares expansion overhead and Access NYC navigation
Lee asks how the administration should assess budgetary needs for Fair Fares expansion given forecasting challenges. Chafee references a request for 35 additional headcount and $800,000 for Access NYC, and suggests using benefits calculators and technology to reduce paperwork assessment burdens.
And then at the General Welfare Executive Budget Hearing, DSS Commissioner Dalton explained that estimating expansion costs was very complicated and that additional overhead funding may be needed depending on enrollment and utilization rates.
So given how challenging it is to forecast the impact of various program expansions, how does IBO advise that the administration should assess the budgetary needs for expansion?
You mean how much money should be put into Access NYC to assist in having Fair Fares participants navigate the system?
I believe there was a request for 35 additional headcount to work Access NYC and $800,000 for...
I'm looking at Sarita because she's meant to say yes or no.
Memory serves, those may be the correct numbers.
I think that we would be really happy to talk with you at longer length about
how a benefits calculator can be used to utilize technology and assist people and have the important humans do more outreach and less assessment of paperwork.
Yeah.
Good answer.