Effective 28 Aug 2008

660.115. Utilicare payment, procedure. — 1. For each eligible household, an amount not exceeding eight hundred dollars for each fiscal year may be paid from the utilicare stabilization fund to the primary or secondary heating source supplier, or both, including suppliers of heating fuels, such as gas, electricity, wood, coal, propane and heating oil. For each eligible household, an amount not exceeding eight hundred dollars for each fiscal year may be paid from the utilicare stabilization fund to the primary or secondary cooling source supplier, or both; provided that the respective shares of overall funding previously received by primary and secondary heating and cooling source suppliers on behalf of their customers shall be substantially maintained.

2. For an eligible household, other than a household located in publicly owned or subsidized housing, an adult boarding facility, an intermediate care facility, a residential care facility* or a skilled nursing facility, whose members rent their dwelling and do not pay a supplier directly for the household's primary or secondary heating or cooling source, utilicare payments shall be paid directly to the head of the household, except that total payments shall not exceed eight percent of the household's annual rent or one hundred dollars, whichever is less.

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(L. 1979 H.B. 545, et al. § 4, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1177, et al., A.L. 1997 S.B. 263, A.L. 2002 S.B. 810, A.L. 2008 S.B. 720)

*Revisor's note: The term "residential care facility" may include "assisted living facility", see section 198.005 regarding changes to name reference.