Title 33: Human Services
Chapter 26: HOME HEATING FUEL ASSISTANCE
33 V.S.A. § 2609. Crisis reserves
§ 2609 § 2609. Crisis reserves
Annually, the secretary of human services or designee shall determine an appropriate amount of funds in the home heating fuel assistance fund to be set aside for expenditure for the crisis fuel assistance component of the home heating fuel program. The secretary or designee shall also adopt rules to define crisis situations for the expenditure of the home heating fuel crisis funds, and to establish the income and asset eligibility requirements of households for receipt of crisis home heating fuel assistance, provided that no household shall be eligible whose gross household income is greater than 200 percent of the federal poverty level or is in excess of income maximums established by LIHEAP based on the income of all persons residing in the household. To the extent allowed by federal law, the secretary or designee shall establish by rule a calculation of gross income based on the same rules used in 3SquaresVT, except that the secretary or designee shall include additional deductio
ns or exclusions from income required by LIHEAP. (Added 1995, No. 158 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 10, 1996; amended 2009, No. 1 (Sp. Sess.), § E.324.5; 2009, No. 88 (Adj. Sess.), § 7, eff. April 29, 2010; 2011, No. 75 (Adj. Sess.), § 113, retroactively eff. June 1, 2010.)