(a) The Commissioner of Housing shall implement and administer, within available appropriations, a program of transitionary rental assistance for private housing for persons who are employed at the time they leave the temporary family assistance program and who: (1) Have income which exceeds the payment standard under said program, or (2) are employed a minimum of twelve hours per week. The commissioner may establish a durational limit for the receipt of such assistance which shall not exceed a period of twelve months. The commissioner may establish priorities for allocating transitionary rental assistance based on whether a person is eligible pursuant to subdivision (1) or subdivision (2) of this subsection.

(b) The Commissioner of Housing shall establish a simplified eligibility determination and application process for transitionary rental assistance. The program shall be designed to allow the provision of such assistance to commence with the first month in which the applicant is no longer receiving benefits under the temporary family assistance program.

(c) The Commissioner of Housing shall implement policies and procedures necessary to carry out the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section while in the process of adopting such policies and procedures in regulation form, provided notice of intent to adopt the regulations is published in the Connecticut Law Journal not later than twenty days after implementation. Such policies and procedures shall be valid until the time final regulations are effective.

(d) Any person aggrieved by a decision of the commissioner or the commissioner's agent pursuant to the program under this section shall have a right to a hearing in accordance with the provisions of section 8-37gg.

(P.A. 99-279, S. 1, 45; P.A. 04-73, S. 1; P.A. 07-16, S. 1; P.A. 09-118, S. 2; P.A. 13-234, S. 2; P.A. 15-29, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 99-279 effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 04-73 amended Subsec. (a) to replace requirement that person be “employed at the time they exhaust time-limited benefits under the temporary family assistance program” with the requirement that person be “employed at the time they leave the temporary family assistance program”, to designate provision re income which exceeds payment standard as Subdiv. (1) and to add Subdiv. (2) requiring employment of “a minimum of twelve hours per week”, and made technical changes in Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 07-16 amended Subsec. (a) to permit commissioner to establish priorities in the allocation of transitionary rental assistance, effective May 7, 2007; P.A. 09-118 added Subsec. (d) re right to a hearing; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Commissioner of Social Services were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013; Sec. 17b-811a transferred to Sec. 8-346a in 2015; P.A. 15-29 amended Subsec. (d) by replacing reference to Ch. 54 with reference to Sec. 8-37gg re right to hearing.