Applications are available now through April 1, 2016, to renters and homeowners.
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In preparation for the LIHEAP season, DHS in collaboration with the regulated utilities that operate in Pennsylvania implemented a program to help households with their past-due utility bills.
The LIHEAP subsidy phase begins November 4 and runs through December 11, if funds are still available. Recipients do not need to be on public assistance or have an unpaid heating bill. Applicants are required to bring ALL documents necessary to start the application process.
To apply for LIHEAP benefits, visit www.compass.state.pa.us or download an application on the department’s website and return it to the county assistance office, 130 N. Duke St.in York City.
“But If not, anything, anything helps, any little thing helps especially being a single parent”, Cooper said.
This program is not created to pay a household’s total energy costs. The program was funded with $2.2 million from the 14-15 LIHEAP year. Grant amounts are based on income, family size, type of heating fuel and the region where the person or family lives.
The program, which previously has helped up to 7,900 Lane County households, is open for any household with a gross income at or below 60 percent of Oregon’s median income level.
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“You don’t want to be coming to us when thing are cold, or when that polar vortex is there, said state Department of Human Services Secretary Ted Dallas, who added that it can take a month to have heating assistance kick in after an application is submitted”. LIHEAP assists low-income households – particularly those with the lowest incomes that pay a high proportion of household income for home energy – in meeting their immediate home energy needs.
