The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 33 V.S.A. § 2601)
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§ 2601. Policy and purpose
(a) It is the purpose of this chapter to secure the safety and health of low income Vermont
households by providing needy Vermonters with assistance for the purchase of essential
home heating fuel. To further this purpose, application acceptance, processing, and
eligibility determination should as much as is practical be coordinated with other
economic benefit programs administered by the Agency of Human Services.
(b) This chapter establishes a Home Heating Fuel Assistance Program in the Agency of Human
Services with both a seasonal fuel assistance component and a crisis component. (Added 1995, No. 158 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 10, 1996; amended 2009, No. 88 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 29, 2010.)