A household is defined as a person or group of persons, including related roomers, who live together as one economic unit that pays for its home-heating energy. A household may pay for its energy either directly to an energy provider or indirectly as a designated or undesignated part of rent.
55 Pa. Code § 601.3;
LIHEAP; State Plan § 601.3
All members of an applicant household, regardless of their relationship, will be counted when determining the household size and the amount of the LIHEAP cash grant. Related roomers must be included in the household. Unrelated roomers can be included in a household, or they can apply for LIHEAP as a separate household.
Persons who are living with an applicant household but who received LIHEAP benefits as a member of another household during the program year are not counted as members of the applicant household.
Children in shared-custody cases may be members of only one LIHEAP household. Persons who are living with an applicant household but who received LIHEAP benefits as a member of another household during the program year are not counted as members of the applicant household.
55 Pa. Code § 601.41(a)(1);
LIHEAP State Plan § 601.41(a)(1) and 601.41(a)(1)(i)
NOTE: In situations where parents have shared custody of children, the parent who applies for LIHEAP first may include the children in his or her household, regardless of the amount of time the children spend in each household.
Reissued February 8, 2013, replacing September 28, 2011