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The standard utility allowance includes charges to the household for heating or cooling, cooking fuel, electricity, water, garbage collection, sewer, and telephone. Households do not have to incur either a heating or a cooling expense in every month. Only those households that are billed separately from their rent or mortgage payments for heating or cooling and those households that receive low income energy assistance may deduct the standard utility allowance when computing the shelter expense.
Heating costs are those costs incurred from a primary source of heat, such as propane, oil, and electricity.
Cooling costs are limited to either the utility costs required to operate an evaporative cooling system or the electricity required to operate a window air conditioner or a central air conditioning unit.
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General Authority: SDCL 28-12-1.
Law Implemented: SDCL 28-12-1; 78 Stat. 703 (1964) as amended; 91 Stat. 958 (1977) as amended; 7 U.S.C. §§ 2011- 2027, inclusive; 43 Fed. Reg. 47,906 (October 17, 1978).
Standard utility allowance, 7 C.F.R. § 273.9 (d)(6).