Category: Public Assistance

Opinion: Notice of Claim to sue the Human Resources Administration for allowing NYC law enforcement to sabotage my public assistace case (3/20/23).

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Mark Pine

3/20/2023

450 Lexington Ave Unit 1375 

New York, NY 10163

917 815 5415 

m@markpine.com 

Notice Of Claim to sue the Human Resources Administration (HRA).

First and foremost I always treat the HRA staff and other public assistance recipients with the utmost respect at all times. 

Treating the people at HRA respectfully if more important than any of this. 

I always treat everyone at the New York Courts, NYC Comptroller’s Office, 60 Center Street, Clerk’s Office, Security Guards, etc. with the utmost respect at all times. 

It’s not any of your fault that people I know pay some of the top law enforcement in the United States to sabotage and harass people including me. 

People I know pay law enforcement to harass and sabotage me every day. 

Now I’m living in the street homeless being harassed by law enforcement agencies with multi billion dollar budgets. 

I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I don’t party. I don’t have a criminal record. I don’t date. I don’t do anything illegal. 

I’m going to mention other government agencies in this Notice Of Claim although this Notice Of Claim is only to sue HRA. 

For example, I’m going to mention the NYPD and New York City law enforcement because in my opinion, I suspect law enforcement is the reason I’m having the issue with HRA. 

I think HRA is doing a great job. 

There wouldn’t be an issue if it wasn’t for law enforcement threatening HRA to sabotage my public assistance case. 

In my opinion, law enforcement runs around behind the scenes at various federal, state, and city government agencies and sabotages me. 

For example, the IRS just sent back my tax return saying they didn’t like my signature and I have to resign it. That’s after being told I can’t efile or drop off my tax return at the IRS office located at 290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007. 

The motivation is because people I know pay law enforcement to sabotage and harass people. 

In my opinion law enforcement is their own oversight and the NYC Department of Investigations, NYPD Internal Affairs, the CCRB and others don’t have any power over law enforcement. It’s vice versa. 

In my opinion, any law enforcement that gets in trouble is approved by law enforcement. 

Attached you will see a copy of my storage bill for April 2023.

Attached you will see that HRA received a perfectly clear copy of my storage bill more than a week ago via Access HRA. 

The way the process works is qualifying people receiving public assistance are allowed to get an inexpensive storage room to keep their things if they are homeless like me or living in a shelter. 

My storage room is about $40 per month. 

Public assistance recipients upload a copy of their storage invoice every month via Access HRA and it’s paid. 

I suspect that law enforcement tells HRA not to pay my storage invoice for a few reasons. 

  1. To harass me. 
  2. To sabotage me. 
  3. To distract me. 
  4. Law enforcement wants me to have to go to the HRA Benefits Access Center Lower Manhattan Address: 109 E. 16th Street, New York, NY 10003 in person. When I go to the center law enforcement will have people blow drug smoke in my face, shove their phones in my face, crash into me, block me from walking, they have women try and set me up as a stalker, and more. I just ignore it, take the abuse, and treat everyone respectfully. 

I would like to sue HRA for $150,000. 

I just paid my storage bill out of my cash assistance so my belongings don’t get thrown in the garbage. I would like to be reimbursed for that. 

Next. 

I’m a full time student at Baruch College. 

Full time students at Baruch College on cash assistance receive money every week from HRA for an unlimited MetroCard. 

In my opinion, of course law enforcement went running over to HRA and told them not to give me my MetroCard money. 

I finally started receiving the MetroCard money in March 2023 when I was supposed to start receiving it in January 2023. 

HRA sent me about $100 to retroactively cover the weeks I didn’t receive the MetroCard money. 

The MetroCard money is about $120 per month. I was owed over $240. 

This isn’t a lawsuit against the NYPD or law enforcement. 

I’m not saying everyone at HRA or the people in charge of HRA know about my situation I just detailed above. 

I’m saying I believe that a few people at HRA out of the hundreds or thousands of HRA staff helped law enforcement sabotage my case. 

I don’t blame them, law enforcement are scary.

This is a lawsuit against HRA for not reporting law enforcement for demanding that my HRA public assistance case be sabotaged regarding my storage and MetroCard. 

In my opinion, most if not all of what I just wrote can be easily verified by the NYC Comptroller’s Office with a few phone calls. 

One more time. 

I have a unique situation with people I know having the money and contacts to pay law enforcement to sabotage and harass me. 

I don’t have any issue personally with anyone that works for the federal, state or city government. 

I just want to be treated the same way as anyone else. 

I have dozens if not hundreds of lawsuits planned as a reaction for law enforcement declaring war on me because people I know are paying them under the table. 

Therefore I’m politely, patiently, and respectfully moving forward and going through the legal processes until I get law enforcement to stop sabotaging and harassing me. 

I’m thinking long term regarding all the lawsuits. 

I’m going to be respectfully interacting with the NYC Comptroller’s Office, New York Courts, and many others for years into the future due to the mess that law enforcement created for me.

Plus law enforcement is still harassing me and running scams on me today. 

For example, law enforcement pays civilian women and men in regular clothes to blow drug smoke in my face, shove their phones in my face, crash into me, etc. I just ignore them. 

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, the NYC FBI, NYPD Precincts and Internal Affairs, US Attorney NYC, and many others blocked my phone number and email. They aren’t helping me.  

Thank you very much for your consideration. 

Please let me know if you require any additional information from me. 

Mark Pine

Opinion: Email to the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) about my storage room.

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Greetings HRA,

I understand everyone is busy and everyone is doing their best.

I always treat everyone from HRA with the utmost respect at all times.

That is more important than anything.

Few quick things.

Most important is that you received my storage invoice on 3/7/2023 through Access HRA and it hasn’t been paid.

I uploaded a perfectly clear copy of the one page storage bill or invoice.

I know that NYC law enforcement runs around to every Federal, State, and City government agency that I interact with and sabotages me.

People I know pay law enforcement to harass people every day.

For example, right now law enforcement is sabotaging me at CUNY while I have an open lawsuit against CUNY, Law enforcement can care less.

The IRS just sent back my tax return because they didn’t like my signature.

HRA held back my MetroCard for more than two months, I finally got it.

Thank you.

I didn’t get the whole amount but I’ll email you about that later.

Right now I’m trying to get my storage paid.

My case is active and up to date.

If my storage isn’t paid by the end of the month I’m at risk of losing all my belongings.

I’m living in the street homeless.

Please let me know if there is any additional information you need from me.

If law enforcement is threatening anyone at HRA to sabotage my case like law enforcement does to every other government agency I interact with please report them to at least 12 government agencies because from my experience NYPD Internal Affairs, NYC DOI, and the CCRB won’t help you.

Please advise.

Thank you and have a great day. 

Mark Pine

Opinion: Law enforcement is sabotaging my public assistance/welfare MetroCard allowance on 2/6/2023.

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Greetings HRA,

Thank you for saving my life after people I know paid the NYPD and NYC law enforcement to strip me of everything I had. They robbed me and harass me everyday. 

I grew up around rich people that have been paying the NYPD and NYC law enforcement to commit crime and sabotage people for decades. 

NYPD Internal Affairs and the NYC DOI know and can care less. 

I never mention law enforcement to anyone at the HRA job centers. 

I always treat all your HRA staff with the utmost respect at all times. 

I always treat everyone at CUNY EDGE with the utmost respect at all times. 

I never mention a word about the NYPD and NYC law enforcement harassing me to anyone at CUNY EDGE. 

This has nothing to do with CUNY EDGE, they are great and as helpful as possible. 

Even if it does have something to do with CUNY who cares, please let me know how to fix it. 

The NYPD and NYC law enforcement don’t care who finds out that they run scams on people. 

Can someone please look into why I’m not receiving my MetroCard allowance. 

I suspect the NYPD and NYC law enforcement are telling whoever is in charge of it at HRA not to send my MetroCard money. 

I don’t blame the HRA person for going along with it because in my opinion NYC law enforcement will try and make anyone’s life a living hell that doesn’t allow them to run scams. 

I’m a full time student at Baruch College. 

I’m not mentioning a word about this to anyone at CUNY EDGE or Baruch College or CUNY. 

Thank you and have a great day. 

Mark Pine

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Opinion: Email to HRA about my MetroCard allowance and cold food retailers not accepting the welfare EBT card on January 13, 2023.

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Greetings HRA,

First and foremost, I always treat everyone at HRA with the absolute utmost respect at all times. That is more important than any of this.

Thank you for saving my life with the food and money.

The stuff that is going on with law enforcement sabotaging people’s food at some, not all, soup kitchens is out of control. Thank God I don’t have to deal with that.

People I know pay the NYPD and others to harass me. That’s why I’m homeless.

Question. What is the story with the Baruch College student MetroCard money?

I’m a full-time student at Baruch College.

I think school starts back up on January 25, 2023.

If you’re not too busy, please let me know when the MetroCard money starts back up.

A few weeks ago, I stopped receiving my MetroCard money around Christmas 2022.

Additionally, can someone please look into why there are so many places in Manhattan that sell cold food that don’t accept SNAP/EBT/Food Stamps?

Sometimes I ask people at food stores, markets, supermarkets, etc., whether they take food stamps.

Some of them, not all, say they don’t take food stamps/EBT like it’s beneath them or something. Like, that’s for poor people or something like that.

In my humble opinion, that is ridiculous.

I appreciate the help.

I’m living in the street homeless for the past five years or longer.

I don’t drink.

I don’t smoke.

I don’t party.

I don’t do anything illegal.

Just no money and bad credit.

I don’t look homeless.

I understand the government doesn’t want people blowing the food money on bad things so that is why we are forced to spend out welfare food money at participating retailers.

The thing is, a number of Manhattan retailers are not accepting the card.

There are a lot of retailers that do accept the card.

I don’t understand why any cold food retailers would turn down food stamps when there are so many of us receiving them.

It doesn’t make sense.

Why would a company turn down government money?

Can someone please look into it?

Thank you and have a great day.

Mark Pine.

Notice of Claim to sue the New York City Human Resources Administration.

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Mark Pine 

December 29, 2022.

First and foremost I always treat everyone from the New York Courts, HRA, the NYC Comptroller’s Office, etc., with the absolute utmost respect at all times. 

That is more important than any of this. 

I’m going to be suing New York City for the rest of my life because New York City law enforcement is never going to stop teasing, harassing, and sabotaging me. 

I would like to sue the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) for $150,000.

HRA cut off my MetroCard money. 

I’m a full time student at Baruch College CUNY. 

Every week I receive money from HRA to purchase a one week unlimited MetroCard. 

For some reason the MetroCard money is canceled for next week and going forward.

I contacted HRA about it on December 23, 2022. I received the following confirmation number. 

Your City of New York Correspondence Number is #1-1-6078274

There is a chance that HRA cut off all student’s MetroCard money for the winter break or holiday. 

If that’s the case then I’m wrong. 

If all college public assistance students are receiving their MetroCard money during the winter holiday and only mine has been cut off then I’m going to sue. 

I contacted a few government agencies about the HRA MetroCard money and no one has responded which seems a little strange. 

I’m not 100 percent sure about this one because I don’t know anyone that goes to college in New York City that is on public assistance. 

Law enforcement sabotages almost every move I make. 

Rich people I grew up with pay the NYPD and others to tease, harass, and sabotage me every day. 

I contacted the CCRB, NYPD IA, and the NYC DOI; they can’t stop New York City law enforcement from teasing, harassing, and sabotaging me every day. 

That is why I want to be sure that I’m not the only public assistance student that had their MetroCard money shut off for the winter holiday. 

I contacted the HRA Commissioner’s Office about the situation and didn’t hear back yet. 

I hope I’m wrong. 

Could you imagine if out of all the college students in New York City that the NYPD or another law enforcement agency went to HRA and threatened HRA to shut off my MetroCard only?

New York City law enforcement has run scams like that on me several times before. 

I’m about to sue the NYPD next month. 

Please let me know if you require any additional information from me.

Thank you and have a great day.

Mark Pine

Opinion: Email to Baruch College about RF CUNY. July 14, 2022.

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Greetings Baruch College,

First and foremost, you and your team are doing an amazing job running Baruch College. I love Baruch College. Especially for a street homeless person such as myself, it’s great to be part of the CUNY community.

Baruch College / The City University of New York is the best opportunity ever. That goes 10X for me.

Additionally, CUNY Edge is as helpful as humanly possible.

CUNY Edge could not make keeping up with my Human Resources Administration documentation any easier.

I always treat everyone at CUNY Edge with the utmost respect at all times as I treat everyone that is connected with CUNY and Baruch College.

I’m 45 years old. I understand that life isn’t perfect. I just want to quickly bring something to your attention.

All the Baruch College students that are on public assistance are assigned hours by HRA to work for the RF CUNY fellowship program. The amount of hours can be anywhere from 0 hours per week to I suspect 20 or 30 hours per week.

As I stated CUNY Edge is as helpful and as great a resource as humanly possible. CUNY Edge is as great as it gets. This has nothing to do with CUNY Edge. CUNY Edge is just the messenger.

I don’t take it for granted how easy CUNY Edge makes it for students like myself on public assistance.

I have a suspicion that a number of colleges might be a lot more work and not as quick turnaround time for students on public assistance to submit their documentation to HRA.

I’m experienced enough to know that I have no idea who makes the policy for the RF CUNY fellowship program at Baruch College and CUNY.

Even if I did know I still treat everyone at CUNY, Baruch College, RF CUNY, etc., with the utmost respect at all times. That is regardless if I get my way or not.

Here is the situation.

I was notified by CUNY Edge that some public assistance students are able to get RF CUNY fellowship program hours and others are not.

RF CUNY pays about $15 per hour if I’m correct. For someone like myself on welfare that is a lot of money.

Plus working for the RF CUNY fellowship program doesn’t throw my HRA case into a tailspin like any other job would.

I could be 100% wrong and if I am I apologize for this note.

I suspect that there are students at Baruch College working 10, 20, and maybe more hours per week at Baruch College for the RF CUNY fellowship program.

Simultaneously, there are students such as myself that are designated by HRA to work 5 to 20 or more hours per week that are getting 0 hours from the Baruch College RF CUNY fellowship program.

In my humble opinion, I think it would be more fair if the hours were split up so that everyone receives some hours.

The last 4 semesters Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 1, Summer 2, I’ve received 0 hours and I was assigned hours from HRA every semester.

I understand that I am not president of the universe. I’m not the CEO of RF CUNY. I’m not the Chancellor of CUNY. I’m not the Mayor of New York City.

I would like to be the Mayor of New York City one day. If I become mayor I promise to raise the budget to CUNY maybe double or triple it.

I have an idea for a few additional two year schools that would be awesome. I’ll send you that note later.

If no one agrees with me it’s OK. Life goes on. I just want to bring this situation to your attention.

If you are too busy to respond it’s no big deal. If you have any advice regarding this situation it would be appreciated.

Also, before I started CUNY I didn’t have a laptop. I didn’t have anything so I never forget how thankful I am for CUNY. I’m sitting in Central Park typing this message on a laptop that was given to my by Baruch College / CUNY. To not appreciate that would be insanity.

Thank you again for the amazing opportunity that is Baruch College.

Have a great day.

Mark Pine

Opinion: Email to the New York City welfare office (HRA) on July 11, 2022.

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Greetings HRA, 

First and foremost thank you for all the help. 

I am a full time Baruch College student that has been living in the street homeless for the past five years. 

I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I don’t party. I don’t have a criminal record. 

I always treat all the HRA staff and security guards with the absolute utmost respect at all times. Most of the welfare recipients are respectful with the HRA staff like myself but it’s still a demanding job for the HRA team and they are appreciated. 

I’m not taking any classes this summer at Baruch College.

I was signed up for two classes and I dropped them both. 

I dropped one summer class at Baruch College on June 13, 2022. I dropped the second Baruch College summer class a week or two later. 

Fall 2022 I’m signed up for a full time schedule at Baruch College. That starts on August 25, 2022. 

In the meantime I did all the preparation to work for RF CUNY at Baruch College although I don’t believe there are any job openings. 

I went on a RF CUNY interview for the library and they said they had a large number of applicants for the position so they couldn’t hire me. 

When I was at LaGuardia Community College before Baruch College I was able to obtain a job with RF CUNY very easily. I assume that’s because it’s a much smaller school. 

At first I didn’t realize how competitive RF CUNY is at Baruch College so I was asking for the library. Now that I realize I might not be able to land a RF CUNY job at all I notified the CUNY Edge office I’ll take a job in any department. 

The reason for this note is that classes don’t start again until August 25, 2022.

Due to the fact that there are no openings at RF CUNY I’m unable to find a job so I’m not working. 

I’m still receiving the MetroCard money every week. If I’m not supposed to be receiving the MetroCard money I just wanted to point it out because I don’t want anything that isn’t mine. I always follow the HRA rules exactly as they are required. 

I just recertified my public assistance case so I’m set until June 2023. I just don’t believe I’m supposed to receive the MetroCard money if I’m not working for RF CUNY and I’m off from school. That was my experience last summer. 

Please advise. 

Thank you and have a great day. 

Mark Pine

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Email to HRA about my welfare case on July 6, 2022.

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Greetings HRA,

First and foremost, thank you very much for all the help and information. 

I believe there might be a ;mistake with my Access HRA account. 

Last month my SNAP account or food stamps were added to my account on June 10, 2022. 

Today is July 6, 2022 and I’m not seeing any future payments on my account. 

Usually by now my Access HRA account would show when the next future payment. 

My next recertification is for June 2023. 

I’m a full time student at Baruch College. 

My classes start back up on August 25, 2022. 

In the meantime, I’m waiting for my next interview for RF CUNY. 

Can someone please look into my account and see why there are no future payments showing? 

Thank you and have a great day.

Mark Pine

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