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4. The applicant is an alien with a temporary admittance status such as visitors, students, or refugees awaiting assignment of official status by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) E. Allow the applicant who challenges the denial to provide verification that they are eligible for benefits. F. The subrecipient will include the income of non-legal residents with all other countable income in determining the LIHEAP household's total countable income. They will not count the non-legal residents in determining household size.
.05 Previous Assistance A. If two or more individuals, previously considered as one household, receive a Home Energy Benefit for their household and then separate, neither party may receive a Home Energy Benefit again during the same 12-month period. If the household, now separate, is in need of assistance, either party may apply separately and receive Crisis Assistance if they are eligible. B. An applicant is ineligible to receive assistance if they have received a Home Energy Benefit within the past 12 months, Crisis Assistance within the same season, or EHEAP Crisis Assistance within the same season. C. An individual cannot be a member of more than one eligible household per assistance category. .06 Abandonment/Incarceration/Death/Absent Household Members If the wage earner abandons the household, is incarcerated, or dies, the intake worker should consider only the income of any remaining family members. If any members of the household work in another city/county/state for extended periods of time, they must be counted as members of the household and their income counted if: A. They list the applicant address for which services are being requested as their main address; B. Their income is used to support the household for which services are being requested. C. The absent member of the household must not have received LIHEAP at the temporary/other domicile within the benefit period (12 months for Home Energy; Season for Crisis).