Gabrielli, J. (dissenting). Although section 131-a of the Social Services Law established a flat grant system, it is not an exclusive, closed application of that concept. The statute itself provides for specific, special grants as an intricate, discrete but significant part of the New York system and a general recitation of the flat grant concept cannot erase the statutory language mandating consideration of "indi…
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