Sec.17b-802-9. Assistance Limitations

(a) The department shall consider completed security deposit guarantee applications and security deposit grant applications in the order in which the department receives the applications. The approval of applications is subject to the availability of funds. In the absence of funds, the department may close the program and refuse to accept applications.

(b) For security deposit guarantee and security deposit grant recipients aged sixty-two years of age or older, the department shall limit assistance to the equivalent of one month’s rent pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of section 47a-21 of the Connecticut General Statutes.

(c) Security deposit guarantees for recipients under the age of sixty-two shall be limited to the equivalent of two months’ rent, except if the commissioner has determined that the health, safety or welfare of a child who resides with an applicant is threatened due to an emergency, in which case the security deposit guarantee shall be limited to the equivalent of one month’s rent combined with a security deposit grant that is limited to the equivalent of one month’s rent.

(d) The department shall approve and sign the contract with the landlord before the applicant moves into the dwelling unit.

(e) The department may deny eligibility for the security deposit guarantee program to an applicant for whom the department has paid two claims by landlords.

(f) The commissioner may establish priorities based on funding availability for allocating security deposit guarantees between eligible persons described in subdivision (2) of section 17b-802-2 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.

(Adopted effective May 24, 2004; Amended June 28, 2013)