COLORADO STATE FUNDS

• State-funded Property Tax, Rent, and Heat Rebate, Department of Revenue, allows tax rebates for home heating payments to income-eligible residents at least 65 years old, surviving spouses at least 58 years old, and totally disabled regardless of age.  Under legislation passed in 1998, the maximum heat rebate has risen from $160 to $192 and the income limit for single member households is now $11,000, up from $7,500.  The higher rebates went into effect in FY 2000.  The heat portion of the rebate for FY 2001 amounted to about $5.2 million.
  
  The rent portion of the rebate also goes to low-income seniors and disabled who rent, but is not countable under LIHEAP leveraging.

• July 1, 2000, the General Assembly appropriated $10 million (HB 01-1107) from the operational account of the severance tax trust fund to the Department of Human Services to increase available funds under LIHEAP.

LEVERAGING

2001: $15.2 million
2000: $4.7 million
1999: $2.5 million
1998: $2.7 million
1997: $2.9 million
1996: $3.2 million
1995: $3.4 million
1994: $3 million
1993: $3.7 million
1992: $4 million
1991: $4 million

LEGISLATIVE CODE

1998, Colorado Statutes, Title 39, article 31, secs. 101-104

House Bill 01-1107