Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 521 – Emergency and disaster assistance
Funds appropriated to the Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Social Services, for “Emergency and Disaster Assistance” and used for special emergency needs of any welfare-receiving household (except those households specifically excluded by the regulations) shall not exceed a total of $1,200 for emergency shelter certified by the Department, $450 for mortgage or rent assistance, and $200 for other costs relating to self-sufficiency of the household for any 1 such household in the fiscal year ending June 30. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget is empowered to transfer, advance or allocate emergency funds, within the limits of the funds appropriated, to the Department of Health and Social Services for the purpose of administration of emergency assistance. Such transfer, advance or allocation shall not be apportioned by county and shall be allocated in the following manner:
(1) Twenty percent of the total emergency fund appropriation shall be allocated promptly in the first quarter of the state fiscal year;
(2) Twenty-five percent of the total emergency fund appropriation shall be allocated promptly in the second quarter of the state fiscal year;
(3) Thirty percent of the total emergency fund appropriation shall be allocated promptly in the third quarter of the state fiscal year; and
(4) Twenty-five percent of the total emergency fund appropriation shall be allocated promptly in the fourth quarter of the state fiscal year.
65 Del. Laws, c. 87, § ?147; 65 Del. Laws, c. 348, § ?158; 66 Del. Laws, c. 85, § ?179; 69 Del. Laws, c. 57, §§ ?1, 2; 70 Del. Laws, c. 65, § ?21; 71 Del. Laws, c. 284, § ?1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 88, § ?21(14);
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 521
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Assistance: means assistance to or on behalf of eligible needy persons or eligible families to enable them to improve their standard of living, including money payments, child care, job training, education, other support services, medical or surgical care, dental care, nursing, burial, board and care in a private institution, adult foster care, rest residential facility for adults, public medical institution as a patient, or such other aid as may be deemed necessary. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 502
- Director: means Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 101
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302