Budget Amendment ID: FY2022-S3-804-R1

Redraft ECO 804

Emergency Assistance Data Collection

Ms. Chang-Diaz, Mr. Eldridge, Ms. Comerford, Messrs. Keenan, Moore, Lesser, Hinds and O'Connor, Ms. Jehlen and Ms. Rausch moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 7004-0101, by inserting after the words “quarterly reports”, in line 40, the following words:- “broken down by month”; and by inserting after the words “6 months”, in line 49, the following words:- “and within the preceding week; (4) the number of families described under clause (3) who received a written denial of their request for services prior to staying in a place not meant for human habitation and the number who neither entered the emergency shelter system nor received a written denial on the day of their request; and (5) available data on the race and ethnicity of the families described under clauses (1) to (4) inclusive”; and in line 156, by striking out “for the duration of the state of emergency declared by the governor on March 10, 2020,” and by striking out the words “provided further, that the department shall submit quarterly reports to the house and senate committees on ways and means with the most recently available monthly data, including data on the race and ethnicity of all families where available and applicable, on: (A) applications for services provided for in this item and in item 7004-0108; (B) front-door entries into the emergency assistance system; (C) applications for services provided for in this item and in item 7004-0108 that are denied and the bases of all such denials; (D) applications for services provided for in this item and in item 7004-0108 that do not result in a formal denial, a front-door entry into the emergency assistance system or verified diversion as a result of HomeBASE household assistance; (E) the number of households making multiple requests for services within the previous 1-month period and the previous 6- month period; (F) diversions as a result of HomeBASE household assistance; (G) exits from the emergency assistance system, delineated by reason for exit, including at-fault terminations, exits because the household is no longer income eligible, exits through HomeBASE household assistance with no other subsidy and exits to affordable, subsidized, or otherwise assisted housing; (H) the number of applications that do not result in the household entering emergency assistance shelter within 48 hours and for which such non-entry is attributable to each of the following: written denial, pending documentation or verifications, no imminent homelessness or household withdrew the application; (I) the average, minimum and maximum cost per family of emergency assistance under this item; (J) the number of families served under this item who required further assistance under this item or under item 7004-0108 at a later date; (K) the type of assistance later required and provided; (L) the total number of families receiving assistance under item 7004-0101 that have received assistance under this item or item 7004-0108 during each of the previous 1, 2 and 3 years; (M) the number of children served under this item broken down by age; (N) the number of applications from households that became homeless within months of depleting their HomeBASE assistance under item 7004- 0108; (O) the reasons for homelessness in the applications received under clause (N) and the number of applications received under said clause (N) that are denied”  and inserting in place thereof the following words:- “provided further, that the department shall submit quarterly reports, broken down by month, to the house and senate committees on ways and means with the most recently available monthly data, including data on the race and ethnicity of all families where available and applicable expressed as a percentage of the total, on: (A) applications for services provided for in this item and in item 7004-0108 as well as requests for services under this item and item 7008-0108, with a request for services defined as any point at which the household seeking services provides information to the department as part of any enrollment, triage, or eligibility determination, regardless of whether a formal application is completed and regardless of whether the contact is by telephone, by office visit, or by other means; (B) front-door entries into the emergency assistance system; (C) applications and requests for services provided for in this item and in item 7004-0108 that are denied and the bases of all such denials expressed as a percentage of the total; (D) applications and requests for services provided for in this item and in item 7004-0108 that do not result in a formal denial, a front-door entry into the emergency assistance system or verified diversion as a result of HomeBASE household assistance expressed as a percentage of the total; (E) the number of households making multiple requests for services within the previous 1-month period and the previous 6- month period; (F) diversions as a result of HomeBASE household assistance; (G) exits from the emergency assistance system, delineated by reason for exit, including at-fault terminations, exits because the household is no longer income eligible, exits through HomeBASE household assistance with no other subsidy and exits to affordable, subsidized or otherwise assisted housing; (H) the number of applications and requests that do not result in the household entering emergency assistance shelter within 48 hours and for which such non-entry is attributable to a written denial, pending documentation or verification, no imminent homelessness or household withdrew the application; (I) the average, minimum and maximum cost per family of emergency assistance under this item; (J) the number of families served under this item who required further assistance under this item or under item 7004-0108 at a later date; (K) the type of assistance later required and provided; (L) the total number of families receiving assistance under item this item that have received assistance under this item or item 7004-0108 during each of the previous 1, 2 and 3 years; (M) the number of children served under this item broken down by age; (N) the number of applications and requests from households that became homeless within 12 months of depleting their HomeBASE assistance under item 7004-0108; (O) the reasons for homelessness in the applications and requests received under clause (N) and the number of applications and requests received under said clause (N) that are denied”; and by inserting after the word “apply” the following words:- “; (vi) the percentage of applications for a transfer that were approved; and (vii) the average number of days and the maximum number of days between the application submission and the approval”.