Progressive City Council members are pushing ahead with a bill to automatically enroll New Yorkers in city benefit programs, even as neither the Council nor the Mamdani administration can say how much the mandate would cost.
NYC Council mulls program to auto enroll in benefits — including illegal immigrants
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May 07, 2026
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