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WHAT YOU SHOULD RECEIVE FROM DSS
 The
Notice of the Fair Hearing
You should get a Notice of Fair Hearing about 4 weeks after you
ask for a hearing. The notice will tell you the date, time and place
of your hearing. Your notice will also tell you if your assistance
will continue unchanged until you get your fair hearing decision.
If the Notice of Fair Hearing says that your assistance
should continue unchanged, but you find that it is not, then you
can complain to:
In Nassau:
Fair Hearing Supervisor (571-4402) |
In Suffolk:
Fair Hearing Supervisor (853-8801)
Commissioner's Hotline (853-6705) |
or New York State:
Department of Social Services
(Fair Hearings): (516) 739-4868 |
Fair Hearing Packet of Documents
Upon request, DSS is supposed to send to you all the documents
it intends to use at your fair hearing within three days of your
request as long as you request them at least 5 business days before
the hearing.
This packet of documents should contain written proof to support
what DSS is doing on your case. For example, if DSS denied your
application for public assistance claiming that you have too much
money in the bank, the packet of documents that DSS must send you
might contain the Notice of Denial and a statement from the bank
reporting the amount in your account.
If you do not receive a packet of documents before your hearing,
tell the hearing officer this when your hearing begins. The hearing
officer should order DSS to give you all of the docu- ments it intends
to use and give you time to review them. This may mean that the
hearing officer will adjourn (put off to another day) the hearing.
Read the packet very carefully.
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