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Assistance Program benefits, payment must be provided as an advance allowance subject to recoupment in accordance with 18 NYCRR 352.11. 4. Whenever a social services district makes an arrearage payment to continue or restore the utility service of a public assistance recipient, the district must also, prospectively for a period of six months or until the case is closed, whichever occurs first, act as a guarantor of the recipient's future utility bills or place the recipient on voucher payment. When the recipient is the customer of record for a utility bill which includes costs for service for the recipient's own residential unit and for space outside that unit, only the recipient's proportionate share of the bill is the prospective responsibility of the social services district. 5. If the agency uses a voucher payment to meet the prospective responsibility for an FA recipient the agency must be able to document recipient mismanagement. For the purposes of this subdivision, mismanagement is determined in accordance with the provisions outlined in paragraph (2) of this subdivision. In such cases, amounts not to exceed the following are restricted from the recipient's grant: i. if the recipient's utility bill represents "heat only," the recipient's monthly fuel for heating allowance is removed from the recipient's monthly grant. Heating costs paid by the district which exceed the amount removed from the recipient's grant are considered to be overpayments subject to recoupment in accordance with 18 NYCRR 352.31(d); ii. if the recipient's utility bill represents domestic costs only (lights, cooking, hot water), the recipient's Home Energy Allowance and Supplemental Home Energy Allowance (HEA and SHEA) or the average monthly cost of the recipient's domestic utility service, whichever is less, is removed from the recipient's grant. Domestic energy costs paid by the district which exceed the amount removed from the grant must be considered to be overpayments subject to recoupment in accordance with 18 NYCRR 352.31(d). iii. if the recipient's utility bill represents heat and domestic costs, a combination of the amounts outlined in subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph is removed from the grant. If the recipient's combined heat and domestic costs exceed the amounts removed from the recipient's grant, the balance must be considered an overpayment subject to recoupment in accordance with 18 NYCRR 352.31(d). 6. If the agency uses a vendor payment to meet the prospective responsibility for an SNA recipient, the agency may do so in accordance with 18 NYCRR 381.3(c)(2). 7. When a recipient has been placed on vendor payment, whereby the social services district pays the energy vendor directly, as a result of mismanagement by the recipient or for administrative ease, the district must at least annually, at case closing, and upon termination of the vendor payment arrangement, determine if there has been an under/overpayment. Identified underpayments/overpayments are to be reconciled in accordance with 18 NYCRR 352.31(d), (e), and/or (f). (g) 1. For recipients with heating costs in excess of their annual allowance provided pursuant to the schedules set forth in this section, the district should explore the possibility of alternative housing (renters only) and/or weatherization/conservation services.