Last updated: January 18, 2019, 1:07 PM
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) issues monthly benefits that can be used to purchase food at authorized retail food stores. SNAP benefits help low-income working people, senior citizens, the disabled and others feed their families.
A Fair Hearing is a chance for you to tell a hearing officer from OTDA, why you think a decision about your case made by a local social services agency is wrong.
OTDA will then issue a written decision which will state whether the local agency's decision was right or wrong. The written decision may order the local agency to correct your case.
Learn more about OTDA through its press releases, publications and public meetings.
Information is available on how to place a FOIL request, report welfare fraud, and how to contact your local department of social services.