Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in Sections
				16a-41(b)
				-1 through 16a-41 (b)-16 inclusive:
(a) "Applicant" means any person who is age
			 eighteen or older or the head of a household and who has signed an application
			 for energy assistance.
(b)
			 "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Human
			 Resources.
(c) "Connecticut Energy
			 Assistance Program" means a program to offset winter heating costs of the
			 state's lower income households whose gross incomes fall at or below 150
			 percent of the federal poverty income guidelines.
(d) "Crisis Assistance" means a vendor
			 payment on behalf of an applicant household or service recipient who is in a
			 crisis situation.
(e) "Department"
			 means the Department of Human Resources.
(f) "Desk review" means an informal hearing
			 conducted by a service provider agency in response to a written appeal filed by
			 an applicant or service recipient.
(g) "Disabled" means any individual who has a
			 physical or mental impairment, whether congenital or acquired, which
			 substantially limits one or more of life's major activities, has a record of
			 having such an impairment, or is regarded as having such an impairment,
			 including, but not limited to, blindness, epilepsy, deafness or hearing
			 impairment, or reliance on a wheelchair or other remedial appliance or
			 device.
(h) "Elderly" means any
			 individual 60 years of age or over.
(i) "Excluded income" is as follows:
(1) Payments received for day care or
			 homecare services.
(2) Payments
			 received under Title II of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property
			 Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1902, 42 USC 1636 ).
(3) The value of the coupon allotment made
			 under the Food Stamp Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 705, as amended,
			 7 USC
			 2016(c) ).
(4) The value of assistance to children under
			 the National School Lunch Act (60 Stat. 230,
			 42 USC
			 1751 et. seq.) as amended by PL
			 90-302.
(5) The value of assistance
			 to children under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (80 Stat. 889, USC 1780
			 (b)).
(6) Payments to volunteers
			 under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 as provided by Section 404 (g)
			 of that act (87 Stat. 409,
			 42 USC 5044
			 ).
(7) The value of any assistance
			 paid with respect to a dwelling unit under the United States Housing Act of
			 1937, the National Housing Act, section 101 of the Housing and Urban
			 Development Act of 1965, or Title V of the Housing Act of 1959, as provided by
			 section 2 (h) of PL 94-375 (90 Stat. 1068).
(8) Value of Federally donated foods
			 distributed pursuant to section 32 of PL 94-320 or section 416 of the
			 Agriculture Act of 1949 ( 7 CFR 250.69e(9) as authorized by
			 5 USC
			 301 ).
(9) Payments for supporting services or
			 reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses made to individual volunteers serving
			 as foster grandparents, senior health aides, or senior companions, and to
			 persons serving in the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) and Active
			 Corps of Executives (ACE) and any other programs under Titles II and III,
			 pursuant to section 418 of PL 93-113.
(10) Income from employment or
			 self-employment of individuals under 18 years of age who are at least part-time
			 students and are not heads of household.