256D.46 EMERGENCY MINNESOTA SUPPLEMENTAL AID.
    Subdivision 1. Eligibility. A county agency must grant emergency Minnesota supplemental
aid, to the extent funds are available, if the recipient is without adequate resources to resolve an
emergency that, if unresolved, will threaten the health or safety of the recipient. For the purposes
of this section, the term "recipient" includes persons for whom a group residential housing benefit
is being paid under sections 256I.01 to 256I.06.
    Subd. 2. Income and resource test. All income and resources available to the recipient must
be considered in determining the recipient's ability to meet the emergency need. Property that
can be liquidated in time to resolve the emergency and income, excluding an amount equal
to the Minnesota supplemental aid standard of assistance, that is normally disregarded or
excluded under the Minnesota supplemental aid program must be considered available to meet
the emergency need.
    Subd. 3. Payment amount. The amount of assistance granted under emergency Minnesota
supplemental aid is limited to the amount necessary to resolve the emergency. An emergency
Minnesota supplemental aid grant is available to a recipient no more than once in any 12-month
period. Funding for emergency Minnesota supplemental aid is limited to the appropriation. Each
fiscal year, the commissioner shall allocate to counties the money appropriated for emergency
Minnesota supplemental aid grants based on each county agency's average share of state's
emergency Minnesota supplemental aid expenditures for the immediate past three fiscal years
as determined by the commissioner, and may reallocate any unspent amounts to other counties.
Any emergency Minnesota supplemental aid expenditures by a county above the amount of the
commissioner's allocation to the county must be made from county funds.
History: 1989 c 282 art 5 s 105; 1995 c 207 art 5 s 25,26; 1998 c 407 art 6 s 17; 1Sp2003
c 14 art 1 s 5,6