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Amend Section 63-509(a)(3)(C) to read: 63-509 INCOME ELIGIBILITY AND BENEFIT CALCULATION 63-509 FOR QUARTERLY REPORTING (Continued)
(a) Income Eligibility and Grant Calculation for Quarterly Reporting Households (Continued)
(3) Reasonably Anticipated Medical, Child Support and Child Care Expenses..(Continued)
(C) Utility Costs
[-Utility costs-] {+Entitlement to the SUA, LUA, or telephone allowance+} shall be determined at application and at recertification and shall remain {+in effect+} [-at the same fixed amount-] during the certification period {+per Section 63-502.363+}. [-, with the exception of households entitled to the SUA. Households that have elected the SUA at initial application, recertification or when a household moves may switch to actual utility expenses per Section 63-502.363(5)(c).-]
[-1. Households that switch utilities mid-quarter shall have their benefits supplemented if the result of the utility change would increase benefits. In no event shall benefits be decreased mid-quarter for utility changes elected by the household.-]
[-2. A "NO Change NOA" shall be sent to the household with a reminder to report the new utility election on the next QR 7 if the utility election would cause benefits to decrease mid-quarter.-]
[-3. Anticipated actual utility amounts shall be averaged over a 12-month period and the resultant monthly amount shall remain fixed until there is another utility change at recertification or when the household moves.-]
[-a. The CWD shall verify, at county option, a household's utility expenses if the household requests to claim expenses in excess of the SUA and the expense would actually result in a deduction.-]
(4) Income Averaging Over the Quarter (Continued)
Authority cited: Sections 10553, 10554, 11265, 18901.3, 18904, and 18910, Welfare and Institutions Code.
Reference: Sections 10554, 11265.1, .2, and .3, 18901.3, 18904, and 18910, Welfare and Institutions Code{+;+} [-and-] Federal Nutrition Service Quarterly Reporting/Prospective Budgeting waiver approval dated April 1, 2003{+; 7 U.S.C. 2014(e)(6)(C)(iii); and the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-171)+}.