Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday an effort to screen for and educate New Yorkers from “underserved” neighborhoods across the Big Apple about which public benefits they may be eligible to receive.
Dubbed “Money in Your Pockets,” the initiative will see over 300 city employees with the Public Engagement Unit (PEU) and other agencies, as well as CUNY students, fan out across 20 underserved neighborhoods to assess if area residents qualify for any one of 70 city, state and federal benefits programs. Those include cash assistance, the Earned Income Tax Credit and Fair Fares, the city’s reduced fare MetroCard program.
