DSS rent payments in your county

[Wesley W.]

Does anyone here have a tenant whose rent gets paid through DSS? I want to verify something I was told today.  

I have a tenant that gets part of their rent paid through Albany County DSS.  The frustrating part is the vouchers are not sent out until the last wednesday of the month.  Which means, I'll expect to get the voucher at the end of the week or early next.  THEN, I have to sign it and send it back.  If I catch the letters in my PO Box on the same day they are delivered (I do not check it every day), I am still looking at a minimum of two weeks late for the rent payment.

What I would like to verify is what the Albany County DSS accounting department told me today.  That is, "the state" controls when the vouchers are sent out, and the counties have no local control over it.  If that is the case, then every landlord across NYS should be getting their rent paid weeks late through DSS.  

Please share your county of business and whether or not this is in fact the case in your locale.  Thanks in advance!

This program is set up to obviously disincentivize landlords from participating.  They don't do direct deposit (my lease requires payments be made to the bank, not mailed to me), and they send out the vouchers at the end of the month, so your rent payment will always be weeks late.  This is unacceptable to me for my business, so I am just doing a bit of research before I (a) call BS on their claim at the county level, or (b) terminate this tenancy.

Thanks in advance!