Section 20544.

(a) (1) The amount of assistance for a claimant renting his or her residence shall be based on the claimant's household income for the time period set forth in Section 20503.

(2) For claims filed with respect to the 2001 calendar year, and each calendar year thereafter, the percentage of assistance for which each claimant renting his or her residence shall be eligible shall be based on the following scale:

_____	_____	The percentage of the
If the total household	The statutory	statutory property tax
income (as defined in this	property tax	equivalent used to
part) is not more than:	equivalent is:	provide assistance is:

$8,812  ........................	$250  ........................	139%
9,400  ........................	250   ........................	136
9,987  ........................	250  ........................	133
10,575  ........................	250  ........................	131
11,163  ........................	250  ........................	128
11,750  ........................	250  ........................	125
12,337  ........................	250  ........................	122
12,925  ........................	250  ........................	119
13,513  ........................	250  ........................	116
14,101  ........................	250  ........................	113
14,688  ........................	250  ........................	110
15,275  ........................	250  ........................	106
15,863  ........................	250  ........................	100
16,451  ........................	250  ........................	94
17,038  ........................	250  ........................	88
17,626  ........................	250  ........................	83
18,213  ........................	250  ........................	77
18,800  ........................	250  ........................	71
19,389  ........................	250  ........................	65
19,976  ........................	250  ........................	59
20,564  ........................	250  ........................	54
21,151  ........................	250  ........................	49
21,738  ........................	250  ........................	45
22,327  ........................	250  ........................	41
22,914  ........................	250  ........................	36
23,500  ........................	250  ........................	32
24,088  ........................	250  ........................	29
24,675  ........................	250  ........................	26
25,263  ........................	250  ........................	23
25,851  ........................	250  ........................	20
26,438  ........................	250  ........................	17
27,908  ........................	250  ........................	15
29,376  ........................	250  ........................	12
30,846  ........................	250  ........................	10
32,314  ........................	250  ........................	9
33,783  ........................	250  ........................	7
35,251  ........................	250  ........................	6

(b) With respect to assistance that is provided by the Franchise Tax Board pursuant to this chapter for the 2002 calendar year and each year thereafter, the household income figures that apply to assistance provided by the Franchise Tax Board during that period shall be the household income figures that applied to assistance provided by the Franchise Tax Board in the same period in the immediately preceding year, multiplied by an inflation factor calculated as follows:

(1) On or before February 1 of each year, the Department of Industrial Relations shall transmit to the Franchise Tax Board the percentage change in the California Consumer Price Index for all items from June of the second preceding calendar year to June of the immediately preceding calendar year.

(2) The Franchise Tax Board shall add 100 percent to the percentage change figure that is furnished pursuant to paragraph (1) and divide the result by 100.

(3) The Franchise Tax Board shall multiply the immediately preceding household income figure by the inflation adjustment factor determined in paragraph (2), and round off the resulting product to the nearest one dollar ($1).

(Amended (as amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 156) by Stats. 2001, Ch. 266, Sec. 3. Effective September 10, 2001.)