IN RE: Application of Byrdie CHISHOLM (2000)

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (William Wetzel, J.), entered on or about November 10, 1999, which, in a proceeding to annul respondents' determination refusing to reinstate petitioner's Section 8 rent subsidy retroactively, granted respondents' cross-motion to dismiss the petition as barred by the Statute of Limitations, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The proceeding, which seeks to recover retroactive rent subsidies from the time petitioner's benefits were terminated, i.e., from December 31, 1997, until her subsidy was reinstated on July 1, 1999, is time-barred because it was not brought within four months of the date that petitioner was served with notice of the determination terminating her Section 8 subsidy (CPLR 217 [1];  Matter of Edmead v. McGuire, 67 N.Y.2d 714, 499 N.Y.S.2d 934, 490 N.E.2d 853).   Respondents' reinstatement of the subsidy upon petitioner's submission of the necessary recertification paperwork, for lack of which respondent had previously terminated the subsidy, did not involve the sort of “fresh, complete and unlimited examination into the merits” as is necessary to extend the four-month limitations period (Matter of Camperlengo v. State Liq. Auth., 16 A.D.2d 342, 344, 228 N.Y.S.2d 115;  see, Matter of Bonar v. Shaffer, 140 A.D.2d 153, 156, 527 N.Y.S.2d 412, lv. denied 73 N.Y.2d 702, 537 N.Y.S.2d 490, 534 N.E.2d 328;  Matter of Davis v. Kingsbury, 30 A.D.2d 944, 293 N.Y.S.2d 997, affd. 27 N.Y.2d 567, 313 N.Y.S.2d 390, 261 N.E.2d 393).

We also note that petitioner never included a claim for retroactive payments in her application for reinstatement of benefits.

MEMORANDUM DECISION.