Households may only be determined eligible for LIEAP assistance once during the program year. The department shall consider it a duplicate payment if a member of a household previously received LIEAP assistance leaves that household and later applies for energy assistance either as a separate household or as part of another household.

The department shall consider it a duplicate payment if the household has received LIEAP assistance from another state or tribal entity during the current program year.

The provisions of this rule do not apply to children under the age of 19 if legal custody has changed from one parent to the other or if a joint custody arrangement requires that the child resides in both parents' separate households.

Source: 8 SDR 95, effective February 18, 1982; 10 SDR 30, effective October 3, 1983; 11 SDR 96, effective January 27, 1985; 14 SDR 90, effective January 3, 1988; 36 SDR 103, effective December 21, 2009; 44 SDR 94, effective December 4, 2017.

General Authority: SDCL 28-1-50(3)(4).

Law Implemented: SDCL 28-1-46.

Prior versions effective: 2009-12-21.