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47 i. accepts or denies your application for public assistance, medical assistance or services; or ii. increases your public assistance grant; or iii. determines to change the amount of one of the items used in the calculation of your public assistance grant or medical assistance spenddown although there is no change in the amount of your public assistance grant or medical assistance spenddown; or iv. denies an application for an exemption from or an increase of a medical assistance utilization threshold and you have reached the utilization threshold; or v. changes the manner or amount of payment for your childcare services except as provided in subparagraph (1)(iv) of this subdivision; or vi. determines that you are not eligible for an exemption requested from work requirements as described in 18 NYCRR Part 385 and you are an applicant for or recipient of public assistance; or vii. denies a waiver of public assistance program requirements under 18 NYCRR section 351.2(l). 3. Action based on a change in State or Federal law requiring automatic public assistance grant adjustments for classes of recipients. When you are a member of a class of public assistance recipients for whom changes in either State or Federal law require automatic grant adjustments, you are entitled to timely notice of such grant adjustment. This notice will be adequate if it includes those items listed in 18 NYCRR section 385-2.2(b). (b) SNAP. 1. Action to discontinue, reduce or recoup: action notice. Except as set forth in subdivision (e) of this section, when a social services agency proposes to take any action to discontinue or reduce your SNAP benefits you have the right to timely and adequate notice. 2. Action to accept, deny, increase, change in calculation: adverse action taken notice. When a social services agency accepts or denies your application for SNAP benefits or increases your SNAP benefits, or changes the amount of one of the items used in the calculation of your SNAP benefits although there is no change in the amount of your SNAP benefits, you have the right to adequate notice. 3. Expiration notice. i. Before or at the beginning of the last month of your household's current certification period for SNAP benefits, you have a right to an expiration notice as defined in section 18 NYCRR 358-2.11; however, if your household was recertified for both public assistance and SNAP benefits prior to the last month of the SNAP certification period, an expiration notice is not required. ii. For households with certification periods longer than one or two months the notice of expiration must be sent by the social services agency so that your household receives it no earlier than the first day of the second to the last month of the certification period and no later than one day before the last month of the certification period.