State Otda Commissioner Visits Rockland County Social Services

CLARKSTOWN, N.Y. -- The Rockland County Department of Social Services recently hosted a visit by Samuel Roberts, Commissioner of the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA).

County Executive Day, DSS Commissioner Susan Sherwood, N.Y. State Sen. David Carlucci and Samuel Roberts, Commissioner of the N.Y. State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance met this week to discuss area social services.
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K Reakes

11/03/2015 9:00 a.m.

The OTDA works closely with DSS in supervising a variety of programs designed to help low-income working families, assist work-capable public assistance recipients in achieving entry into the workforce and oversee New York State’s child support enforcement program.

The department continues its aggressive efforts to combat those who seek to cheat the public benefits system, rejecting 89 new applications for public benefits due to front end fraud-detection this year.

The fraudulent applications, made to DSS between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30, resulted in $628,242 in cost-savings to local taxpayers.

"My administration is working to make sure that people who steal from the system are brought to justice, protecting Rockland taxpayers, as well as the limited pool of resources available to help our most vulnerable neighbors," said County Executive Ed Day.

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