N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 18 § 358-2.15
Notice of action means a notice from a social services agency advising an applicant, recipient or resident of a tier II facility of any action the agency intends to take or has taken on any assistance or benefits except food stamp benefits, including the acceptance, denial, discontinuance, suspension, or reduction of public assistance, medical assistance or services, an increase in public assistance or medical assistance, a change in the amount of one of the items used in the calculation of a public assistance grant or medical assistance spenddown although there is no change in the amount of such public assistance grant or medical assistance spenddown, a change in the manner or method or form of payment of a public assistance grant, a determination that an applicant for or a recipient of public assistance is not exempt from work program requirements pursuant to section 385.2 of this Title, a restriction of a medical assistance authorization, and a denial or acceptance of HEAP or a determination to discharge a resident of a tier II facility involuntarily after such resident requests and participates in a hearing held by the facility or the social services district in which the facility is located.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 18 § 358-2.15