ALBANY – State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is asking the Hochul administration to increase the transparency of data for senior citizens in need, including 16,000 seniors on waiting lists for food and in-house services across New York.

That included a cumulative wait list of about 1,700 services requested in the counties of Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Orleans, Genesee, Allegany and Wyoming, according to the most recent figures received by the state in September 2024, state officials said.

In a 24-page report released Wednesday, DiNapoli warned that even though state funding for programs in the state’s Office of the Aging (NYSOFA) has increased 88% in the last seven years, the demand for those services has exceeded their availability. The report said the state’s population of

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