safety net
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 22, 2011 - 10:10 am
In today's Daily Freeman: Ulster County will be passing on $1.3 million in state welfare funding to its towns, who had to shoulder extra Safety Net costs this year:
Legislators voted unanimously to use additional state funding the county will receive for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 16, 2010 - 12:28 pm
Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen is steamed about the state legislature's proposed budget cuts to programs that counties and towns are mandated by law to run. Specifically, Safety Net:
Both the Assembly and Senate plan to cut $100 million in this area... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 4, 2010 - 12:30 pm
First Kingston was overpaying for welfare services by $40,000. Then that figure became $64,000. Now, according to an audit, it's more like $105,000, according to the Daily Freeman.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 9:03 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that Kingston mayor James Sottile and legislator David Donaldson are pushing for Ulster County to take over all Safety Net payments. (Ulster County is the only county in New York State that bills individual municipalities for the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 11:13 pm
It probably isn't news to locals that in Ulster County, the city of Kingston pays for the lion's share of Safety Net, a statewide welfare program. In most of the state, the buck stops with the county. Not so in Ulster County, which bills towns for half... Read more
