Hanif asks about DOF training to other city agencies
Hanif asks whether DOF provides SCRIE/DRIE training to other agencies, what topics are covered, and who facilitates, and Shear confirms training is provided to DFTA, MOPD, ACS, and HRA staff on eligibility and application processes, conducted by outreach unit and taxpayer advocate staff on an as-needed basis.
Thank you, Chair Lee.
Thank you.
Does DOF currently provide training concerning scree or dree to personnel at other city agencies?
We do.
We provide training to staff from Department for the Aging, MOPD.
We also, because we do outreach with ACS and HRA, we have done training there as well.
And is this a training that happens annually or how, what's the basis of?
We do the training as the other agencies need it, on an as needed basis.
Got it.
And then what topics are covered?
I think just in general, the eligibility for the program
and the application process, the sorts of things, the training that is done is done for staff at those agencies that will be doing outreach events for us.
So it's geared to the interactions that the agency would have with potential applicants.
And then who from DOF facilitates those trainings?
That would be staff from our outreach unit and also from our taxpayer advocates office.
Got it.
And then going back to the enrollment data that was shared, so re-enrollment peaked at 12,215 in 2019, 11,000
roughly in 2024.
And talking about the decline or the fall of applications, you mentioned COVID as one reason, which I think is very fair.