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Adult Protective Services (APS) eligibility for CityFHEPS
0:21:21
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Commissioner Molly Wasow Park explains the relationship between Adult Protective Services (APS) and CityFHEPS eligibility, highlighting the sensitivity of APS client information.
- APS eligibility is one of the criteria for CityFHEPS, but due to medical privacy concerns, this information is not tagged in rental assistance data.
- The commissioner emphasizes the need to protect the confidentiality of APS clients' medical information.
- While specific APS eligibility numbers for CityFHEPS are not available, the overall CityFHEPS statistics are provided for context.
Diana Ayala
0:21:21
Do we know how many households were found newly eligible for APS households?
Molly Wasow Park
0:21:27
So as as my colleague noted, APS is one of the the criteria.
0:21:33
APS is is very sensitive medical information.
0:21:36
So while we, it it the clients can be routed to city peps because of their APS eligibility.
0:21:45
We don't, in their rental assistance data, tag them as APS clients because we're trying to protect the confidentiality of that medical information.
0:21:53
So that's another one, I'm sorry, that that I can't add.
0:21:57
To give a little bit of context on so that we do have quite a bit of data on city fepps.
0:22:02
In f y 24, there were 13,400 households who did lease up with city fepps.
0:22:09
For this fiscal year through December, there's been 71100 households that have done so, and I can, you know, certainly break out that data, in other ways.
0:22:20
We have about almost 52,000 households that are currently receiving CityFEPs
Diana Ayala
0:22:24
in total.
0:22:26
52,000?
Molly Wasow Park
0:22:27
The exact number is 5,191,121 as of December.