Every qualified individual household for which an application is made, and every applicant household in which the head of the household or spouse is elderly or disabled and the income for the prior calendar year does not exceed one hundred and fifty percent of the current federal poverty level or sixty percent of the state median income, shall be an “eligible household” and shall be entitled to receive assistance under the utilicare program if moneys have been appropriated by the general assembly to the utilicare stabilization fund established pursuant to section 660.136. “Income” shall be as defined in section 135.010.