Adi Talwar
HRA staff determine an applicant’s eligibility on a case-by-case basis at one of 19 social service offices across the city known as a Job Centers, like this one at 1365 Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, or at HRA offices inside civil courthouses.
“Once again, the needs of the poor have been especially shut out of the state’s moral conscience, with our government refusing to include an increase to cash assistance grants in the budget.”
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