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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 21
West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 6 Chapter 21 Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP)
• Grants and loans from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant Funds made to individuals to rehabilitate their private residence. • All Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) payments, except those considered wages for on-the-job training. • Veterans Affairs (VA) Aid and Attendance payments. • Social Security Administration o Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (RSDI) o Supplemental security Income (SSI) 21.3.1.B Assistance Group (AG) The AG consists of any individual or group of individuals who are living together in the same dwelling and for whom residential home heating is customarily purchased in common or for whom home heating is included in a rent or mortgage payment as a specified amount. It is the responsibility of the client to list all individuals who are living in the home, regardless of whether or not they are family members or whether or not they share the cost of home heating. For the purpose of LIEAP eligibility, all household members are considered one AG. When the AG includes a person(s) who has already received a LIEAP payment as part of another AG, he is not included in the AG and his income is not counted in determining eligibility. Inclusion in the AG Example: An employed woman and her two children are included in her mother’s AG. The mother applies for and is approved for a LIEAP payment for an AG of four. Her daughter and grandchildren then move out of her home to live with the children’s father. The father applies for LIEAP and reports an increase in AG size and income. His LIEAP application is approved for an AG of one and only his income is counted. When an AG includes an illegal noncitizen, that person’s income must be counted even though he cannot be included in the LIEAP AG. 21.3.1.C Vulnerability to the Cost of Home Heating/Cooling In order to qualify for a LIEAP payment, an AG must be determined vulnerable or partially vulnerable to the cost of home heating/cooling.