Q&A
Goals and current status of tax break enrollment
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Council Member Brannan inquires about specific goals for enrollment in tax break programs. Jacob Capistran provides current enrollment numbers and discusses DOF's outreach efforts.
- Current enrollment numbers: SCRIE has about 64,000 enrollees, SCHE/DHE has about 46,000
- DOF is still working on determining overall eligibility numbers
- The department employs various outreach methods, including direct mailings and community events
- A recent mailing campaign resulted in 3,300 new enrollments out of 3,900 responses from 19,000 mailings
Justin Brannan
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Does DOF have any specific, or explicitly stated goals related to enrollment in these tax breaks?
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Like, we we'd like to see 75 percent of eligible taxpayers.
Jacob Capistran
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Yes, council member.
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Prior to the pandemic, we had we had more pro folks on program, and now we're back.
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I think the numbers to as of, f y 24 were, I believe, 64,000 or so, for Shahid and Dahi.
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64,000 folks who are enrolled?
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Let me let me pull up the right numbers for you.
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Excuse me.
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Screedri was about 64,000 last year, and Shahidi He was about 46,000.
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Those numbers those numbers for enrollment?
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Mhmm.
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On on program.
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And what about eligibility?
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For we do we do as I said, council member, excuse me, we don't have those numbers just yet.
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Okay.
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We're still working through the eligibility, and they'll be ready next you know, the upcoming few months here.
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But to your point, if a New Yorker's available for a program, available for a benefit, we're trying our best to get to them, to reach out to them.
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As I mentioned, we have direct and indirect outreach through our community events and through direct mailings.
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Our outreach team is willing to partner with any council member and any community board to try to get the word out there.
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If I can reference the mailings I I spoke about earlier, the 19,000 mailings we sent out to households directly last year, we received about 3,900 responses.
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And of those 3,900 responses, about 3,300 of them were accepted on program.
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And so even with direct mailings, it's still not a sure a sure shot that we're gonna get them on program.