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Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 40b - Energy Conservation Material Standards for Residential Buildings › Energy Conservation Loan Program › Section 16a-40b-13 - Program management

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The
				Commissioner shall adopt such internal management procedures as may be required
				for the processing and servicing of loans made from the Energy Conservation
				Loan Fund.
(b) The Commissioner
				shall refuse to provide any loan for any work done prior to receipt of a formal
				application from the borrower by the Department. The Department shall not be
				liable for any work performed, materials purchased, contracts signed or any
				other debt incurred in connection with any unsuccessful application for an
				energy conservation loan.
(c) The
				Commissioner shall recall any loan granted from the Energy Conservation Loan
				Fund when the proceeds of such loan are used for purposes other than those
				identified in regulations adopted by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and
				Management where applicable, or for purposes other than those identified in
				Section
				16a-40b
				of the General Statutes or in these regulations.
(d) In the event a loan is in arrears for a
				period of 120 days or more, the Commissioner may:
(1) Require the recipient of any loan granted
				to repay the loan in full; or
(2)
				To facilitate repayment, the Commissioner may recast the balance of the
				outstanding indebtedness, at an interest rate not less than that originally
				levied, for a period of time not exceeding the original loan term and
				consistent with the appropriate underwriting income ratio.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Coordination of Energy Assistance, Energy Conservation, and Renewable Resource Programs › Section 16a-41-30 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) "Applicant" means a natural person or a
				household seeking assistance from any energy program.
(b) "Energy program" means any energy or fuel
				assistance program or energy conservation loan, grant, audit or service
				program, or any renewable resources loan, grant, or service program which is
				administered or funded in whole or in part by the state.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Coordination of Energy Assistance, Energy Conservation, and Renewable Resource Programs › Section 16a-41-32 - Referrals

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) All public and private agencies
				administering energy programs shall refer any applicant to all other energy
				programs for which the applicant may be eligible, in accordance with subsection
				(b) of this section.
(b) Such
				referral shall include, but not be limited to, the distribution to all
				applicants of written materials which shall describe, in summary form, the
				eligibility criteria for, services provided through, and means of contacting
				such energy programs. Such descriptive summaries shall employ the precise
				language provided by the office of policy and management under subsection (c)
				of this section, or such substitute language as may be approved in writing by
				the office of policy and management. Each state agency which funds other public
				or private agencies which administer energy programs, has legal authoritity
				over such agencies in their administration of energy programs, or which itself
				directly administers energy programs, shall be responsible to ensure printing
				of such referral materials by itself or by such agencies in such format as the
				office of policy and management may prescribe in accordance with subsection (c)
				of this section, in quantities sufficient to provide a copy to all
				applicants.
(c) The office of
				policy and management shall, by August 30 of each year, prepare and provide to
				all agencies which administer energy programs, written material which describes
				in summary form, the eligibility criteria of, services provided through, and
				means of contacting such energy programs, together with a description of the
				specific format, if any, which the office of policy and management wishes such
				agencies to use in printing such referral materials.
(d) A referring agency shall not be
				responsible for determining the eligibility or suitability of any applicant for
				any program administered by another agency.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Coordination of Energy Assistance, Energy Conservation, and Renewable Resource Programs › Section 16a-41-33 - Simultaneous applications

Current through July 10, 2024
Any agency which administers more than one energy program
				  shall take applications at the time of the initial visit of any applicant for
				  all such energy programs which are administered by the agency at that
				  time.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Weatherization Assistance Program › Section 16a-41-34 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in Sections 34 through 45 inclusive
(a) Administrative overpayment means an
				overpayment which occurs through the error or fraud of a service provider
				agency or fraud on part of a recipient and may be attributable to an action or
				inaction by the service provider agency.
(b) Appellant is an individual or service
				provider agency seeking administrative remedy, through a Departmental Hearing
				or a Community Action Agency Desk Review, to a decision rendered concerning the
				weatherization assistance program.
(c) Applicant means any individual who has
				filled out an application.
(d)
				Applicant household is any individual or group of individuals living together
				as one economic unit whose source of residential heat is purchased in common
				and is applying for weatherization assistance.
(e) Bid is a specific price quotation
				requested from a potential seller or supplier. Bids must follow the format set
				forth in Section
				16a-41-31, Standards for
				Procurement.
(f) Commissioner means
				the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources.
(g) Current income status is the applicant
				household's income from the previous four (4) weeks preceding the date of
				application or the fifty-two (52) weeks from the date of application, except in
				cases of self-employment.
Income derived from self-employment shall be determined based
				  upon the six (6) calendar months preceding the date of application.
(h) Departmental Hearing is:
(1) A hearing held between an applicant or a
				service recipient and the Department of Human Resources in response to the
				filing of an appeal; or,
(2) A
				hearing held with an applicant or a service recipient and a service provider
				agency and the Department of Human Resources in response to the filing of an
				appeal.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Weatherization Assistance Program › Section 16a-41-35 - Eligibility

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Income eligibility exists when the
				household's included income, based on the total gross annual income, as
				determined by that household's current income status, excluding assets, and,
				based on size, does not exceed 150% of the Federal Poverty Income Guidelines
				for the current program year.
(b)
				When a dwelling unit/s is located in a building that has five (5) or more
				units, and at least sixty-six percent (66%) of the households in that building,
				are at or below one hundred and fifty percent (150%) of the current federal
				poverty guidelines, then, all of the dwelling units in that building may be
				weatherized. When a dwelling unit/s is located in a building that has four (4)
				or less units, fifty percent (50%) of the households must be income eligible.
				However, the expenditures for that entire building may not exceed the maximum
				cost per unit multiplied by the number of eligible households.
(c) Income may be zero for any applicant
				household and, in cases of self-employment only, may result in a negative
				income. Zero income must be sworn or affirmed to by the applicant.
(d) Program eligibility for weatherization
				exists when a household:
(1) Is income
				eligible as stated in section
				16a-41-26(a).
(2) The dwelling unit is in sufficient
				physical condition to warrant the installation of insulation
				materials.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Weatherization Assistance Program › Section 16a-41-36 - Limits of assistance

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) This is not an
				entitlement program.
(b)
				Weatherization benefits shall be subject to the availability of
				funds.
(c) Weatherization
				assistance for applicant households shall not exceed $750.00 for materials. A
				waiver must be approved by the Commissioner or his designee for work on heating
				systems, for single family owner occupied dwelling units that require
				additional materials beyond the $750.00 limit. Waivers will be required in
				writing by the service provider agency's energy coordinator prior to work
				started on a unit.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Weatherization Assistance Program › Section 16a-41-37 - Application process

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) For eligible
				applicants, the fuel assistance award letter shall include a pread-dressed
				weatherization card that solicits dwelling unit data.
(b) To be eligible for weatherization
				assistance, applicants must return the card in person or by mail within 30 days
				from the date on which the service provider agency or the Department of Income
				Maintenance mailed their award letter.
(c) The service provider agencies shall check
				the returned cards against their list of units completed since the beginning of
				SWAP/DOE coordination.
(d) The
				service provider agencies shall mail a denial letter to applicants if
				weatherization work had been previously completed on that dwelling
				unit.
(e) The service provider
				agencies shall then place the remaining eligible cards in chronological order
				organized by municipality.
(f)
				Weatherization work will be scheduled on a first come first serve
				basis.
(g) From this process the
				service provider agencies shall develop a planned caseload, which shall be
				served during the program year.
(h)
				This process shall determine seventy five percent (75%) of the dwelling units
				to be weatherized. The remaining twenty five percent (25%) will be determined
				at the discretion of the service provider agency.
(i) If there are eligible households that
				cannot be served during the program year, those cards will be carried forward
				to the following program year.
(j)
				If a service provider agency has exhausted their eligible weatherization
				caseload, they shall use their energy assistance caseload for outreach
				services.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Weatherization Assistance Program › Section 16a-41-38 - Determination of eligibility and provided services

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
				All persons shall be allowed to file an application.
(b) Service provider agencies, or their
				designees, shall use a standard application form for fuel assistance and
				weatherization services provided by the Department of Human
				Resources.
(c) Service provider
				agencies, or their designees, shall take simultaneous applications from persons
				for any energy, utility, weatherization or conservation loans, audits,
				assistance, or services made available by the Commissioner and which the
				service provider agency administers.
(d) Service provider agencies shall advise
				applicants as to the best way to maximize the benefits potentially available to
				them by providing information on the maximum amount of the assistance available
				and how to obtain it.
(e) Service
				provider agencies, or their designees, shall assist persons in completing
				application forms and in locating interpreters for applicants whose primary
				language is not English.
(f)
				Service provider agencies shall take whatever actions are necessary to insure
				that elderly and disabled persons are not denied equal access to the program
				due to their age or physical condition, including but not limited to home
				visits.
(g) Service provider
				agencies, and their designees, shall counsel all applicant households as the
				needs of those households require and make referrals as appropriate to the
				individual household.
(h) As a
				condition of initial and continuing eligibility, the applicant/service
				recipient shall make him/herself available for personal interview at a location
				designated by the service provider agency.
(i) The applicant/service recipient shall
				verify all factors pertaining to eligibility, technical and financial, as
				required by the Commissioner. Denial or discontinuance of assistance shall
				result from failure to provide verification of information deemed by the
				Commissioner to be essential to the determination or redetermination of
				eligibility.
(j) The
				applicant/service recipient or his/her duly authorized representative shall
				have access to his/her application file during the regular business hours of
				the service provider agency with whom he/she applies.
(k) The applicant/service recipient shall
				have a decision rendered whether the dwelling unit will be weatherized during
				the program year.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Weatherization Assistance Program › Section 16a-41-39 - Allowed materials

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Caulking and
				weatherstripping of doors and windows.
(b) The replacement of an inoperable furnace
				system or a system beyond repair in single family owner occupied dwelling
				units, in cases where DHR has approved this measure.
(c) Furnace efficiency modification:
(1) Replacement burners designed to
				substantially increase the energy efficiency of the heating system.
(2) Optimizing the firing rate in oil-fired
				systems and clock thermostats.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Weatherization Assistance Program › Section 16a-41-40 - Standards for procurement

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) General
				Standards for Procurement of Materials, or Contractor Labor:
(1) The service provider agencies must insure
				that all procurement transactions will be conducted in a manner to provide, to
				maximum extent practicable, open and free competition.
(2) Solicitations for bids/offers shall
				clearly set forth all requirements that the bidder/offeror must fulfill in
				order for a bid/offer to be evaluated by the grantee.
(3) Awards shall be made to the
				bidder/offeror whose bid/offer is responsive to the service provider agency's
				solicitation and is most advantageous to the service provider agency; price and
				other factors considered.
(4) The
				service provider agencies must maintain a code or standards of conduct that
				shall govern the performance of its officers, employees, or agents engaged in
				the awarding and administration of contracts using State Funds. Such codes or
				standards must provide that:
No service provider agency employee, officer or agent shall
				  participate in the selection, award or administration of a contract in which
				  State Funds are used, where to his knowledge, he or his immediate family or
				  partner has a financial interest or with whom he is negotiating or has any
				  arrangement concerning prospective employment. The service provider agency's
				  officers, employees, or agents shall neither solicit nor accept gratuities,
				  favors, or anything of monetary value from contractors or potential
				  contractors. Such standards shall provide for disciplinary action to be applied
				  for violation of such standards by the service provider agency's officers,
				  employees or agents.
(5)
				Procurement standards shall be consistent with the federal standards covered by
				OMB Circulars A-102 and A-110 and will be amended from time to time.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Weatherization Assistance Program › Section 16a-41-41 - Fraud and overpayment

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Identification
				and Reporting of Overpayment(s):
(1) All
				overpayment(s) will be referred to the Department of Human Resources;
				and,
(2) Any service provider
				agency referring any overpayment to the Department of Human Resources shall
				indicate whether, in its judgment, the overpayment was caused by the
				withholding of information, or agency error.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Weatherization Assistance Program › Section 16a-41-42 - Appeals

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Desk Review
(1) A desk review is allowed when:
(A) An applicant household has been denied
				assistance;
(B) An
				applicant/service recipient household is aggrieved because the service provider
				agency failed to notify the household of the status of their application within
				the program year.
(C) A service
				recipient household is aggrieved because it believes that not enough
				weatherization work was completed or the weatherization work was done
				incorrectly.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Weatherization Assistance Program › Section 16a-41-43 - Conflicts of interest

Current through July 10, 2024
No employee of any service provider agency, or its designee,
				  shall certify to the eligibility of any other employee or board member of said
				  service provider agency. All such certifications shall be made by the
				  Department of Human Resources. Nothing herein, however, shall preclude any
				  employee of any service provider agency, or its designee, from participation in
				  this program.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41 - Energy Assistance Programs › Weatherization Assistance Program › Section 16a-41-44 - Administrative and reporting requirements

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Service
				provider agencies will execute administration fund agreements.
(b) By the tenth day of the month, each
				service provider agency will submit a financial statement applicable to the
				funding grant made to the service provider agency for administration.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-2 - Scope

Current through July 10, 2024
These regulations apply to Community Action Agencies or any
				other qualified non-profit or for profit entities authorized by the
				Commissioner to provide Connecticut Energy Assistance Program (CEAP) services
				or State Appropriated Fuel Assistance Program (SAFA) services. These
				regulations shall also apply to applicants or service recipients of either the
				Connecticut Energy Assistance Program (CEAP) or the State Appropriated Fuel
				Assistance (SAFA) Program.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-3 - Income eligibility for CEAP

Current through July 10, 2024
The Connecticut Energy Assistance Program (CEAP) provides fuel
				and rental assistance to households whose gross annual income falls at or below
				150% of the federal poverty income guidelines promulgated by the Federal
				Department of Health and Human Services and in effect prior to the beginning of
				the current program year.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-4 - Income eligibility for SAFA

Current through July 10, 2024
The State Appropriated Fuel Assistance Program (SAFA) provides
				fuel assistance to households if one or more of the members of the household is
				disabled and/or elderly and the gross annual income of the household is between
				150 and 200% of the federal poverty income guidelines promulgated by the
				Federal Department of Health and Human Services and in effect prior to the
				beginning of the current program year.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-5 - Eligibility certification

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The Department
			 will require all household members to document their income for the previous
			 four (4) weeks or for the previous six (6) calendar months, if self-employed,
			 which will be extrapolated to 52 weeks. Documentation must be verifiable, or
			 supported by affidavits, and applicants must comply with all reasonable
			 requests for assistance in verifying income.
(b) Households claiming no income in the
			 previous four (4) weeks must sign an affidavit declaring their means of support
			 for that period. The affidavit shall include authorization to verify all income
			 and the financial status of the household.
(c) An applicant household has the option of
			 having its eligibility determination based on its income for the previous 52
			 weeks from the date of application if that will more accurately reflect its
			 annual income.
(d) Food Stamp
			 recipients may use a letter from the Department of Income Maintenance that
			 verifies food stamp eligibility, household size and annual income. Non food
			 stamp recipient members of the household shall provide income verification as
			 stated in subsections (a) and (c) of Section
			 16a-41(b)
			 -5.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-6 - Limits of assistance

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Energy
			 Assistance is not an entitlement program. For the Connecticut Energy Assistance
			 Program (CEAP) and the State Appropriated Fuel Assistance Program (SAFA),
			 benefits are limited to the amounts contained in the Connecticut Energy
			 Assistance Program State Plan as approved in accordance with Connecticut
			 General Statute 4-28b. Rental benefits are not available for the SAFA income
			 eligible households.
(b) In
			 accordance with Sections 245A and 210A of the Immigration and Nationality Act,
			 as amended by Sections 201 and 303 of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of
			 1986, certain individuals granted residence pursuant to the Immigration Reform
			 and Control Act of 1986 shall not be eligible to receive Energy
			 Assistance.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-7 - Crisis assistance for CEAP and SAFA

Current through July 10, 2024
Subject to the availability of funds, crisis assistance will be
				provided within the following restrictions.
(a)
Type I Crisis Assistance -
To receive a one-time crisis assistance payment, an applicant household shall
			 be without or within a week of being without its primary deliverable heating
			 fuel and file and sign an application for assistance. For those applicant
			 households who are determined eligible, the total amount of crisis assistance
			 provided shall be deducted from their heat benefits. For those applicant
			 households who are determined ineligible, the total amount of crisis assistance
			 shall be repaid to the service provider agency.
Service provider agencies shall arrange for the delivery to the
				applicant household's dwelling within 24 hours of the request.
Service provider agencies are not required to provide this
				assistance if the applicant household is found ineligible within 24 hours of
				the request.
(b)
Type
			 II Crisis Assistance -
To receive a crisis assistance benefit, a service
			 recipient household shall have exhausted their heat benefits and be without or
			 within one week of being without its primary deliverable fuel. To receive Type
			 II Crisis Assistance, service recipient households shall sign a statement
			 attesting to the veracity of their crisis situation and allow for an
			 inspection/energy audit of their dwelling unit, within the extent of their
			 legal power to do so.
Income eligibility redetermination will not be required to
				receive Type II Crisis Assistance.
Service provider agencies shall arrange for the delivery to the
				service recipient's dwelling within 24 hours of the request.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-8 - Rental assistance

Current through July 10, 2024
Rental assistance is available only under the Connecticut
				Energy Assistance Program (CEAP) and if all of the following conditions are
				met:
(1) the household is income
			 eligible;
(2) the household pays
			 for its heat in its rent; and
(3)
			 the household pays over 30% of its income towards the cost of rent.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-9 - Safety-net

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Subject to the availability of funds, the
			 Department will implement a Safety-Net Program to address the needs of service
			 recipient households who have exhausted their heat and Type II Crisis
			 Assistance benefits and are in a life-threatening situation. The Safety-Net
			 Program will assist service recipient households with obtaining shelter with
			 adequate heat and, as a last resort, may authorize an emergency fuel delivery
			 to provide heat to those households who have no other means of obtaining
			 shelter with adequate heat.
(b) An
			 emergency fuel delivery may be authorized for a service recipient household if
			 it is determined that:
(1) the household is
			 out of fuel or will be out of fuel in less than a week;
(2) there are no family or friends with whom
			 to reside temporarily;
(3) they
			 have no one to assist with the purchase of fuel;
(4) they have no paycheck or entitlement
			 funds coming into the household prior to the time at which they will be out of
			 fuel;
(5) there is no emergency
			 shelter within a reasonable distance which can provide temporary shelter;
			 and
(6) after allowing for
			 essential living costs, the household has no liquid assets from which fuel may
			 be purchased. The department shall not authorize an emergency fuel delivery if
			 the household has resources due to income or liquid assets that are equal to or
			 greater than $150. Liquid assets shall include, but not be limited to: cash,
			 checking accounts, savings, stocks, bonds, certificates of deposit, and money
			 market accounts.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-12 - Weatherization services

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Households who
			 refuse weatherization services without good cause shall be ineligible to
			 receive fuel assistance in the program year following their refusal of
			 services. Good cause for refusing weatherization services shall include, but
			 not be limited to the following:
(1) A
			 household member is ill and weatherization efforts would compound the health
			 problem(s).
(2) No adult is at home
			 during the day due to employment and cannot take time off from work without
			 loss of income.
(3) No adult is at
			 home during the day because of participation in a therapy or treatment program
			 or a job training or educational program.
(4) The applicant no longer lives at the
			 address where the initial weatherization agreement was made.
(5) If agreement was for home-owned property
			 and it is now in the process of being sold.
(6) Recipient lives in rental housing which
			 is the subject of a dispute with the recipient's landlord and the issue of
			 weatherization services could adversely affect the dispute.
(7) Recipient is not the primary lessee of
			 the unit and the primary lessee does not want weatherization work to be
			 done.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-13 - Fraud early detection, fraud investigation, recoupment of overpayment(s) and vendor fraud

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Identification and reporting of overpayment(s):
(1) All overpayment(s) will be referred to
			 the Department; and
(2) Any service
			 provider agency referring any overpayment(s) to the Department shall indicate
			 whether, in its judgment, the overpayment was caused by the applicant/service
			 recipient or by agency error.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-14 - Program schedule

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) This program
			 shall operate in accordance with the dates established for the operation of the
			 Energy Assistance Program as outlined in the approved Connecticut Energy
			 Assistance State Plan.
(b) The
			 Department shall annually notify service provider agencies of the time schedule
			 for the operation of the Energy Assistance Program.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-15 - Record maintenance and retention

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Service
			 provider agencies shall maintain books, records, documents, program and
			 individual service records and other evidence of its accounting and billing
			 procedures and practice, which sufficiently and properly reflect all direct and
			 indirect costs of any nature incurred in the program. These records shall be
			 subject during normal business hours to monitoring, inspection, review or audit
			 by authorized employees or agents of the Commissioner or the State or
			 interested Federal agencies.
(b)
			 Service provider agencies shall also collect fiscal, and/or statistical data
			 and submit fiscal and/or statistical reports at times and in the manner
			 prescribed by the Commissioner. Services provider agencies will retain all such
			 books, records, other financial, program and individual service documents
			 concerning this program for a period of three (3) years after a completed
			 audit.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 41(b) - Energy Assistance › Section 16a-41(b)-16 - Appeals

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Desk Review
(1) The Desk Review shall be the initial step
			 in the grievance resolution process when as a result of an action or decision
			 by the service provider agencies:
(A) An
			 applicant household has been denied assistance;
(B) An applicant or service recipient is
			 aggrieved because the service provider agency failed to notify the household of
			 the decision of eligibility or ineligibility within twenty-eight (28) days,
			 excluding state designated holidays, of the date of application;
(C) A service recipient is aggrieved because
			 he or she believes that an incorrect level of assistance has been awarded.
It is not necessary for an applicant or service recipient to
				have a desk review to change its rental option if the applicant or service
				recipient has moved.
(D) A
			 service recipient is aggrieved because assistance has been
			 discontinued.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 42g - Loans for Payment of Home Heating Fuel Bills › Section 16a-42g-1 - Purpose (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11, 2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 42g - Loans for Payment of Home Heating Fuel Bills › Section 16a-42g-2 - Definitions (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11, 2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 42g - Loans for Payment of Home Heating Fuel Bills › Section 16a-42g-3 - Requests by town for funds (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11, 2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 42g - Loans for Payment of Home Heating Fuel Bills › Section 16a-42g-4 - Standard forms (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11, 2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 42g - Loans for Payment of Home Heating Fuel Bills › Section 16a-42g-5 - Criteria for determination and verification of eligibility (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11, 2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 42g - Loans for Payment of Home Heating Fuel Bills › Section 16a-42g-6 - Loan acceptances (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11, 2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 42g - Loans for Payment of Home Heating Fuel Bills › Section 16a-42g-7 - Review of loan denial (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11, 2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 42g - Loans for Payment of Home Heating Fuel Bills › Section 16a-42g-8 - Bi-monthly reports (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11, 2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 42g - Loans for Payment of Home Heating Fuel Bills › Section 16a-42g-9 - Administrative costs. Repayment to the state (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11, 2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 42g - Loans for Payment of Home Heating Fuel Bills › Section 16a-42g-10 - Auditing procedures (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11, 2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 43 - Business Emergency Relief Loan Program and Small Home Heating Oil Dealers Loan Program › Section 16a-43-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
"Applicant" means any business concern that applies for a loan
				under these regulations.
"Authority" means the Connecticut Development Authority.
"Borrower" means any business concern to whom a loan has been
				approved under these regulations.
"Business concern" means any sole proprietorship, partnership,
				association or corporation formed for the purpose of transacting business for
				profit, including but not limited to agricultural, manufacturing, wholesale,
				retail, construction and service concerns.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Economic Development.
				"Department" means the Department of Economic Development.
"Disaster emergency" means an emergency or disaster which has
				been proclaimed by the governor under the laws of the state.
"Loan" means a business emergency relief loan or a small home
				heating oil dealer loan.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 43 - Business Emergency Relief Loan Program and Small Home Heating Oil Dealers Loan Program › Section 16a-43-3 - Loan amounts and terms for small home heating oil dealer loans

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The term for repayment of any small home
			 heating oil dealer loan or extension of credit shall end not later than the
			 first day of October next following the date of such loan or extension of
			 credit.
(b) The total amount of
			 such Working Capital Loans and Lines of Credit to any one borrower in any
			 period of one year shall not exceed $200,000.
(c) Disbursement of the loan shall be made at
			 the discretion of the Commissioner in accordance with the provisions of the
			 small home heating oil dealer Loan Agreement and the instructions of the
			 Authority.
(d) The Commissioner
			 shall determine the method of payment of interest and principal due with
			 respect to each loan.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 43 - Business Emergency Relief Loan Program and Small Home Heating Oil Dealers Loan Program › Section 16a-43-4 - Promissory note for small home heating oil dealer loans

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Each small home heating oil dealer loan
			 shall be evidenced by a Promissory Note in the maximum amount of the loan set
			 forth in the small home heating oil dealer Loan Agreement and shall contain a
			 provision permitting the borrower to prepay the loan in whole or in part upon
			 any interest payment date.
(b) The
			 Promissory Note shall provide for the payment of interest at a rate of not more
			 than 1% above the rate of interest borne by the bonds of the State of
			 Connecticut last issued prior to the date of approval of the loan application
			 except that, if such rate is lower than the rate charged by the Federal Small
			 Business Administration for loans provided under its Economic Dislocation Loan
			 Program, the Federal Small Business Administration rate shall be charged and
			 collected.
(c) The Promissory Note
			 may provide for the collection of a late charge not to exceed two percent of
			 any installment which is not paid within ten days of the due date thereof. Late
			 charges shall be separately charged to and collected from the
			 borrower.
(d) The failure of the
			 borrower to abide by the terms of the small home heating oil dealer Loan
			 Agreement or the Promissory Note shall be considered as default under such
			 Promissory Note.
(e) The Promissory
			 Note shall contain a provision that the failure of the borrower to make a
			 payment of any installments of principal or interest due under the Promissory
			 Note within fifteen days from the due date shall constitute a
			 default.
(f) The Promissory Note
			 shall provide that upon default, any and all sums owing by the borrower under
			 the Promissory Note shall, at the option of the Commissioner, become
			 immediately due and payable.
(g)
			 The Promissory Note shall provide for the payment of reasonable attorneys' fees
			 and legal costs in the event the borrower shall default in payment of the
			 Note.
(h) The Promissory Note shall
			 contain such other clauses and covenants as the Commissioner, in his
			 discretion, may require.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 43 - Business Emergency Relief Loan Program and Small Home Heating Oil Dealers Loan Program › Section 16a-43-5 - Eligibility

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) In order to be eligible for a small home
			 heating oil dealer loan, the applicant must:
(1) be a small home heating oil dealer as
			 defined in subsection (a) of Section
			 16a-43 of the General
			 Statutes;
(2) represent that such
			 applicant is unable to obtain sufficient assistance through programs of the
			 Federal Small Business Administration or in the event 30 days or more have
			 elapsed since such applicant submitted application for assistance to the Small
			 Business Administration and such application has not been acted upon;
			 and
(3) demonstrate, to the
			 satisfaction of the Commissioner, that such applicant will be unable to
			 properly finance oil purchases without state assistance.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 43 - Business Emergency Relief Loan Program and Small Home Heating Oil Dealers Loan Program › Section 16a-43-6 - Loan application and agreement for business emergency relief loans

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Application for a business emergency
			 relief loan shall be submitted on Department business emergency relief loan
			 application forms. No application shall be considered unless the exhibits
			 required by such are furnished.
(b)
			 Upon approval of an application by the Authority or, if the Authority so
			 determines, by a committee of the Authority, the Department and the borrower
			 shall enter into a Business Emergency Relief Loan Agreement which shall set
			 forth the terms and conditions required by these regulations and other terms
			 and conditions applicable to the particular loan that the Commissioner shall
			 deem appropriate.
(c) Each Business
			 Emergency Relief Loan Agreement shall be effective only upon execution by the
			 Commissioner and the borrower.
(d)
			 The Business Emergency Relief Loan Agreement shall provide, without limitation,
			 that the borrower agrees:
(1) That the
			 funprovided will be used exclusively for the repair, reclamation or replacement
			 of machinery, equipment, real property and improvements thereon, inventory or
			 crops which were damaged, destroyed or otherwise adversely affected by a
			 disaster emergency;
(2) To provide
			 the Department with such financial and other reports as the Commissioner, in
			 his discretion, may require from time to time;
(3) To notify the Department promptly of any
			 material adverse change in the financial condition or business prospects of the
			 borrower;
(4) To represent and
			 warrant that it has the power and authority to enter into the Loan Agreement
			 and to incur the obligations therein provided for, and that all documents and
			 agreements executed and delivered in connection with the loan will be valid and
			 binding upon the borrower in accordance with their respective terms;
(5) To provide such security for the loan as
			 the Commissioner may deem necessary and appropriate and to execute and deliver
			 all documents in connection therewith;
(6) To the extent the loan is secured by a
			 contract or contracts, to:
(A) Notify the
			 Commissioner of the modification of any provision of a contract which is
			 security for the loan when said modification affects the time or manner of
			 payment, or in any other way substantially affects the contract or the manner
			 of performance of said contract;
(B) Notify the Commissioner of the
			 termination of any part of a contract or the termination of the entire contract
			 by any party to the contract;
(C)
			 Notify the Commissioner of the failure of either party to a contract to perform
			 any of its obligations under such contract.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 43 - Business Emergency Relief Loan Program and Small Home Heating Oil Dealers Loan Program › Section 16a-43-7 - Loan amounts and terms for business emergency relief loans

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The business emergency relief loan may be
			 secured or unsecured, as the Authority determines to be appropriate in the
			 particular circumstances. If the loan is to be secured, the Authority or the
			 committee of the Authority may require the borrower to provide the Department
			 as security any or all of the following: real property, accounts, chattel
			 paper, documents, instruments, general intangibles, goods, equipment, inventory
			 or other personal property, and may further require the borrower to have
			 executed and delivered to the Department security agreements, financing
			 statements, mortgages, pledges, assignments, subordinations, guarantees or
			 other documents or evidences of security as and in the form required by the
			 Authority or the committee of the Authority.
(b) The term for repayment of any business
			 emergency relief loan shall not exceed 10 years, provided that no such loan
			 shall be made the term of which ends later than October 1, 1993.
(c) The total amount of a business emergency
			 relief loan provided by the Commissioner to any single business concern for
			 relief from any one disaster emergency shall not exceed $500,000.
(d) A business emergency relief loan shall be
			 repaid on an amortized schedule of periodic payments or upon such other
			 periodic method of payment of principal and interest as the Authority or the
			 committee of the authority considers necessary and appropriate in the
			 particular circumstances.
(e)
			 Disbursement of the loan shall be made at the discretion of the Commissioner in
			 accordance with the provisions of the Business Emergency Relief Loan Agreement
			 and the instructions of the Authority.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › 43 - Business Emergency Relief Loan Program and Small Home Heating Oil Dealers Loan Program › Section 16a-43-8 - Promissory note for business emergency relief loans

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Each business emergency relief loan shall
			 be evidenced by a Promissory Note in the maximum amount of the loan set forth
			 in the Business Emergency Relief Loan Agreement and shall contain a provision
			 permitting the borrower to prepay the loan in whole or in part upon any
			 interest payment date.
(b) The
			 Promissory Note shall provide for the payment of interest at a rate of not more
			 than 1% above the rate of interest borne by the bonds of the State of
			 Connecticut last issued prior to the closing date of the Promissory Note except
			 that, if such rate is lower than the rate charged by the Federal Small Business
			 Administration for loans provided under its Economic Dislocation Loan Program,
			 the Federal Small Business Administration rate shall be charged and
			 collected.
(c) The Promissory Note
			 may provide for the collection of a late charge not to exceed two percent of
			 any installment which is not paid within ten days of the due date thereof. Late
			 charges shall be separately charged to and collected from the
			 borrower.
(d) The failure of the
			 borrower to abide by terms of the Business Emergency Relief Loan Agreement or
			 the Promissory Note shall be considered a default under such Promissory
			 Note.
(e) The Promissory Note shall
			 contain a provision that the failure of the borrower to make a payment of any
			 installments of principal or interest due under the Promissory Note within
			 fifteen days from the due date shall constitute a default.
(f) The Promissory Note shall provide that
			 upon default, any and all sums owing by the borrower under the Promissory Note
			 shall, at the option of the Commissioner, become immediately due and
			 payable.
(g) The Promissory Note
			 shall provide for the payment of reasonable attorneys' fees and legal costs in
			 the event the borrower shall default in payment of the Note.
(h) The Promissory Note shall contain such
			 other clauses and convenants as the Commissioner, in his discretion, may
			 require.