QUESTION
Will the NYC Department of Social Services expand its outreach for the Fair Fares program?
0:50:26
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28 sec
The NYC Department of Social Services plans to enhance outreach for the Fair Fares program by targeting specific ZIP codes with high eligibility but low enrollment.
- First Deputy Commissioner Jill Berry affirms plans to expand outreach.
- The expansion focuses on ZIP codes where potential eligibility is high but enrollment is not.
- The department annually reevaluates and targets its outreach to these specific areas.
Adrienne E. Adams
0:50:26
Do you see that outreach expanding further than what you're doing right now?
Jill Berry
0:50:34
Yeah.
0:50:35
One of the things we really spend a lot of time with on the Outreach is looking at those ZIP codes where it appears that people are eligible and not enrolling in the program and targeting the outreach each year to those specific ZIP codes and doing that, reevaluating that each year.
Adrienne E. Adams
0:50:53
Thank you.
0:50:54
Thank you for your testimony.
