Public Assistance Caseloads and Expenditures: New York State Monthly Data

Public Assistance (PA) Caseloads and Expenditures: Beginning 2002 provides monthly listings of cases, recipients, adults, children, and expenditures for New York State's Family Assistance and Safety Net Assistance programs. The dataset likely contains detailed breakdowns of federally participating and non-participating components, as well as maintenance-of-effort distinctions. It is hosted by the State of New York and appears on multiple data platforms.

Use Cases

• Analyzing monthly trends in total caseloads using Total Temporary Assistance Recipients and Month columns.
• Comparing federal participation levels across programs using Family Assistance Federally Participating Cases and Safety Net Assistance Federally Participating Cases.
• Tracking expenditure allocations between federal and state funds using Federally Participating Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Expenditures and Non-Maintenance of Effort Expenditures.
• Examining demographic composition of assistance recipients using Safety Net Assistance Adults and Non-Maintenance of Effort Children columns.
• Assessing program performance by district using District Code and District columns alongside caseload and expenditure metrics.

Strengths

• The dataset provides a granular monthly breakdown of program components, as indicated by columns like Federally Non-Participating Recipients and Maintenance of Effort Expenditures.
• It has a long temporal coverage, explicitly beginning in 2002.
• Its cross-platform presence on Socrata and Data.gov suggests official importance and accessibility.

Limitations

• Metadata completeness is poor; size, row count, license, and author information are unknown across all sources.
• There is a conflict in the reported last updated date: Socrata lists 2026-05-28 while Data.gov lists 2026-04-04.
• The dataset description is repetitive across platforms, indicating potential lack of detailed documentation.

Provenance

Source

State of New York

Time Range

Beginning 2002

Freshness

2026-05-28 15:04:42

Geography

New York State, likely by district