TO:	Local District Commissioners, TA Directors, FS Directors, Staff Development Coordinators

FROM:  Russell Sykes, Deputy Commissioner,  Division of  Employment and Transitional  Supports

SUBJECT:	Group Home Standardized Benefits (GHSB) Adjustments NYC  

EFFECTIVE DATE:	January 1, 2006

CONTACT PERSON:	For FS program questions contact (518)-473-1469; for WMS systems questions contact Helene Hartman-Kutnowsky @ (212)-961-8171

We have secured federal approval for adjustments in the Group Home Standardized Benefit (GHSB) amounts as follows:

	TA Income	SSI/SSA Income	Other Income, No TA or SSI/SSA income	
NYC
Nassau, Rockland, Suffolk, Westchester	$86  (was $84)	$39 (was $33)
	$51 (Unchanged)	
Rest of State	$90 
(was $98)	$44 
(was $31)	$140 (Unchanged)

	
All Districts Supervised /Supportive Apartment/Enriched Housing Eligible for full FSUA	$152
(Unchanged)	$152
(Unchanged)	$152
(Was $140)	

These benefit standards apply to all group home recipients in shelter types 15, 16, 17, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 42, & 43.

The new GHSB standards have been mass migrated already and in effect for budgets with dates of 1/A/06 or later.