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 went from $160 to
$192 and the income limit for 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 2005 amounted
to about $3.8 million. The rent portion of the rebate also goes
to low-income seniors and disabled who rent, but is not countable
under LIHEAP leveraging.
- Colorado's governor has provided
$10 million to the state's LIHEAP office each year since 2003.
- FY 2001 - 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
2005: $13.8 million
2004: $14.3 million
2003: $4.6 million
2002: $6.1 million
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
Page Last Updated: April 14, 2006
