2003 Minnesota Statutes

     256D.46 Emergency Minnesota supplemental aid. 

    Subdivision 1.    Eligibility.  A county agency must 
 grant emergency Minnesota supplemental aid, to the extent funds 
 are available, if the recipient is without adequate resources to 
 resolve an emergency that, if unresolved, will threaten the 
 health or safety of the recipient.  For the purposes of this 
 section, the term "recipient" includes persons for whom a group 
 residential housing benefit is being paid under sections 256I.01 
 to 256I.06. 

    Subd. 2.    Income and resource test.  All income and 
 resources available to the recipient must be considered in 
 determining the recipient's ability to meet the emergency need.  
 Property that can be liquidated in time to resolve the emergency 
 and income, excluding an amount equal to the Minnesota 
 supplemental aid standard of assistance, that is normally 
 disregarded or excluded under the Minnesota supplemental aid 
 program must be considered available to meet the emergency need. 

    Subd. 3.    Payment amount.  The amount of assistance 
 granted under emergency Minnesota supplemental aid is limited to 
 the amount necessary to resolve the emergency.  An emergency 
 Minnesota supplemental aid grant is available to a recipient no 
 more than once in any 12-month period.  Funding for emergency 
 Minnesota supplemental aid is limited to the appropriation.  
 Each fiscal year, the commissioner shall allocate to counties 
 the money appropriated for emergency Minnesota supplemental aid 
 grants based on each county agency's average share of state's 
 emergency Minnesota supplemental aid expenditures for the 
 immediate past three fiscal years as determined by the 
 commissioner, and may reallocate any unspent amounts to other 
 counties.  Any emergency Minnesota supplemental aid expenditures 
 by a county above the amount of the commissioner's allocation to 
 the county must be made from county funds. 

    HIST: 1989 c 282 art 5 s 105; 1995 c 207 art 5 s 25,26; 1998 c 
 407 art 6 s 17; 1Sp2003 c 14 art 1 s 5,6