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Vermont Department for Children and Families Seasonal Fuel Assistance Rules Economic Services Division 2904 Excluded Living Arrangements

2904 Excluded Living Arrangements (06/22/2024, 23-18)

a. The following are not living units under these rules, and residents of these places are ineligible for fuel assistance benefits:

1. Housing units owned or operated by educational, religious, and/or other institutions, which perform an educational, religious, or other service for the residents, are excluded if the heating costs are obligated, guaranteed, or in any way the responsibility, directly or indirectly, of the institution, or are integrated in any way with the service costs;

2. Dormitories, teaching/training centers, transitional living centers, hospitals, retirement or rest homes, boarding houses, homeless shelters, communes, correctional facilities, jails, fraternity or sorority houses, or other forms of congregate living arrangements;

3. Long-term care facilities, including:

i. Assisted living residences;

ii. Homes for persons who are terminally ill;

iii. Nursing homes;

iv. Residential care home; and

v. Therapeutic community residences;

4. Lodging establishments and short-term rentals, as those terms are defined by 18 V.S.A. § 4301(a); and

5. Temporary living quarters or movable structures, including travel trailers, semitrailers, truck campers, motor homes, boats, campers, recreational vehicles, railroad cars, vans, cars, buses, tents, sheds, garages/shops, and fishing shacks, unless such structure has been modified to meet the definition of a living unit.