2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 17b-808. (Formerly Sec. 17-86e). Special needs benefit for emergency housing. Limitation.
Sec. 17b-808. (Formerly Sec. 17-86e). Special needs benefit for emergency
housing. Limitation. (a) The Commissioner of Social Services shall provide a special
needs benefit for emergency housing to any recipient of payments under the temporary
family assistance program and the optional state supplementation program who cannot
remain in permanent housing because (1) a judgment has been entered against the recipient in a summary process action instituted pursuant to chapter 832, provided the action
was not based on criminal activity, or a judgment has been entered against the recipient
in a foreclosure action pursuant to chapter 846 and the time limited for redemption has
passed; (2) the recipient has left to escape domestic violence; (3) a catastrophic event,
such as a fire or flood, has made the permanent housing uninhabitable or the recipient
has been ordered to vacate the housing by a local code enforcement official; (4) the
recipient shares an apartment with a primary tenant who is being evicted or is engaged
in criminal activity; (5) the recipient was illegally locked out by a landlord and has filed
a police complaint concerning such lockout; (6) the recipient has been living with a
tenant who received a preliminary notice under section 47a-15 or a notice to quit because
of termination of a rental agreement for lapse of time; or (7) the family has relocated
because a child in the family has been found to have a level of lead in the blood equal
to or greater than twenty micrograms per deciliter of blood or any other abnormal body
burden of lead and the local director of health has determined, after an epidemiological
investigation pursuant to section 19a-111, that the source of the lead poisoning was the
residential unit in which the family resided. A person shall be eligible for the benefit
under this section provided application is made to the commissioner within forty-five
days of the loss of permanent housing by the recipient. On and after September 4, 1991,
the benefit shall be limited to not more than one occurrence per calendar year and not
more than sixty days per occurrence, except that any family receiving the benefit under
this section pursuant to subdivision (7) with a child undergoing chelation treatment may
receive the benefit for more than one occurrence provided the total number of days the
benefit is received by the family for all occurrences is not more than eighty days in any
calendar year. Any person receiving a benefit under this section shall agree to reside in
any housing which was constructed, renovated or rehabilitated with state or federal
financial assistance. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, any family receiving
the benefit under this section pursuant to subdivision (7) shall not be required to reside
in any housing in which the paint contains a toxic level of lead as defined by the Commissioner of Public Health in regulations adopted pursuant to section 19a-111. Under the
temporary family assistance program, any person not eligible for the benefit under this
section shall be referred to the Department of Social Services' program for emergency
shelter services.
(c) Within ten days of receiving a notice to quit issued pursuant to chapter 832, a recipient of benefits under the temporary family assistance program and the optional state supplementation program shall notify the commissioner of the receipt of such notice. No person shall be denied emergency housing assistance or declared ineligible for any other benefit because of a failure to notify the commissioner.
(P.A. 90-257, S. 6, 17; P.A. 91-237, S. 1, 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-8, S. 4, 63; P.A. 92-234; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-16, S. 4, 89; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 36, 87; 93-333; 93-381, S. 9, 39; 93-418, S. 29, 41; 93-435, S. 59, 95; P.A. 95-210, S. 1, 2; 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2, S. 87, 165.)
History: P.A. 91-237 amended Subsec. (a) to extend eligibility for the special needs benefit to a recipient who has had a judgment entered against him in a foreclosure action; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-8 Subsec. (a) amended the special needs benefit for emergency housing by limiting the benefit to one occurrence per calendar year, not to exceed eighty days per occurrence and deleted provision re reduction in benefits of AFDC recipients by twenty-five per cent in certain cases; P.A. 92-234 amended Subsec. (a) by adding Subdiv. (7) re eligibility for the special needs benefit of families relocated because a child in the family has been found to have lead poisoning; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-16 amended Subsec. (a) by reducing the special needs benefit for emergency housing from not more than eighty days per occurrence to not more than sixty days per occurrence; P.A. 93-262 replaced references to commissioner of income maintenance and department of human resources with references to commissioner and department of social services, respectively, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-333 amended Subsec. (a) to prohibit placement of families with children with lead poisoning in housing in which the paint contains a toxic level of lead; P.A. 93-381 and 93-435 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of public health and addiction services for commissioner and department of health services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-418 made provision of direct vendor payments of rent mandatory rather than discretionary and changed the words "standard of need" to "payment standard", effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17-86e transferred to Sec. 17b-808 in 1995; P.A. 95-210 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that a family may receive emergency housing for more than one occurrence if a child in the family is undergoing lead chelation treatment, effective June 27, 1995; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2 replaced references to aid to families with dependent children with temporary family assistance and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 1997.
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