New Tool Aims to Help New Yorkers Access Benefits Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

A new web application aims to help struggling New Yorkers locate benefits to assist them during their time of need, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday. The application, developed through a public-private partnership with Google.org, is a user-friendly social services discovery application that aims to help individuals who are either new to or unfamiliar with the state’s social programs network, the state says. The…