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54 action. In the Medical Assistance Program, if you have been receiving assistance based on a spenddown of excess income, the right to aid continuing includes the right to have your spenddown liability continue unchanged. ii. If your assistance or services have been reduced or discontinued, restricted or suspended by the social services agency and you requested a hearing before the effective date contained in the notice, your assistance or services must be restored by the social services agency as soon as possible but no later than five business days after notification from OAH that you were entitled to have your public assistance, medical assistance or services continue uninterrupted pursuant to this paragraph. iii. In cases where the action is an automatic public assistance grant adjustment based on a change in State or Federal law, the effective date for determining the right to continued public assistance, medical assistance and SNAP benefits will be deemed to be 10 days after the date the changed grant becomes available to you. iv. If the effective date of the proposed action falls on a weekend or holiday, a hearing request postmarked or received by OAH on the day after the weekend or holiday will be considered timely for the purposes of aid continuing. 2. There is no right to aid continuing of: i. public assistance where OAH has determined that the sole issue is one of State or Federal law or policy, or change in State or Federal law and not one of incorrect grant computation; or ii. medical assistance or services where OAH has determined that the sole issue is one of State or Federal law or policy; or iii. medical assistance when you have been determined presumptively eligible for medical assistance and have subsequently been denied eligibility for medical assistance; or iv. medical assistance if you are a recipient in a general hospital, not receiving chronic care services, and you are in short-term hospitalization and a utilization review committee determines that such level of care is no longer required; or v. public assistance, medical assistance or services when the social services official determines to discontinue your benefits because you are receiving concurrent benefits as described in 18 NYCRR 351.9 in the same social services district or in another social services district within the State; or vi. childcare assistance provided pursuant to 18 NYCRR section 415.2(a)(1)(i) before the eligibility determination and you have subsequently been determined ineligible for childcare assistance pursuant to 18 NYCRR section 415.2(a)(1)(ii). 3. i. Where the social services agency is required only to give you adequate notice but not timely notice and has discontinued, reduced, restricted or suspended your public assistance, medical assistance or services, you have the right to have your public assistance, medical assistance or services reinstated and continued until a fair hearing decision is issued only if you request a fair hearing within 10 days of the mailing of the agency's notice of the action and if OAH determines that the action on your public assistance or medical assistance benefits or services did not result from the application of or change in State or Federal law or policy. If OAH determines that