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7 AAC 44.260. Manner of payment. (a) The department may pay the applicant’s vendor directly an amount determined under 7 AAC 44.340

(1) by establishing a line of credit for the amount; or

(2) by making a cash advance for the amount. (b) The department may pay the applicant directly if

(1) the household pays rent and pays home heating and electricity costs indirectly through rental payments; or

(2) the vendor has not executed an agreement under 7 AAC 44.300. (c) The department may pay a portion of the amount to the applicant’s home electricity vendor and the remainder to the applicant if the household pays home heating costs indirectly through rental payments but pays directly for home electricity. (d) After May 15 and before September 1 of each year, the department may distribute to an applicant any unexpended amounts credited to that applicant’s account under (a) of this section (Eff. 8/12/2008, Register 187) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 47.05.010 AS 47.25.622 AS 47.25.623 7 AAC 44.270. Use of heating assistance payments. (a) A heating assistance payment may only be used for

(1) the purchase of fuel oil, kerosene, propane, natural gas, electricity, wood, coal, or other petroleum products used for home heating, lighting, or cooking in the household’s dwelling;

(2) gasoline and two-cycle oil for a snowmachine or chain saw used to harvest and transport wood if the household cuts its own wood for home heating and self-harvested wood is the household’s primary heating source; or