low income home energy assistance program

• State Median Income Estimates for a Four-Person Household: Notice of the Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2013 State Median Income Estimates for Use Under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

This notice announces to grantees of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) the estimated median income of four- person households in each State and the District of Columbia for FFY 2013 (October 1, 2012, to September 30, 2013). LIHEAP grantees that choose to base their income eligibility criteria on these State Median Income (SMI) estimates may adopt these estimates (up to 60 percent) on their date of publication in the Federal Register or on a later date as discussed below. This enables grantees to implement this notice during the period between the heating and cooling seasons. However, by October 1, 2012, or the beginning of the grantees' fiscal year, whichever is later, such grantees must adjust their income eligibility criteria so that such criteria are in accord wi...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 15376, March 15, 2012
• Notices
• Health and Human Services Department

• Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to Open Nov. Pennsylvania

HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvanians who may have trouble paying their home-heating bill this winter can apply for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) beginning Nov. 1, Secretary of the Department of Public Welfare Gary D. Alexander said today. The federally-funded LIHEAP program offers both cash and crisis grants to those who meet income guidelines.

• U.S. Newswire
• October 27, 2011

• Rep. Carolyn Mccarthy Holds a Hearing On Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTHY FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES HOLDS A HEARING ON THE LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASS...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 21, 2009

• Pennsylvania's Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program to Open On Nov. 1

HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The federally- funded Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, also known as LIHEAP, will accept applications for cash grants starting Nov. 1, acting Secretary of Public Welfare Michael Nardone said today. LIHEAP provides cash grants to help income-eligible homeowners or renters pay for home heating fuel. A crisis grant component to address heating emergencies or unexpected fuel shortages will open Jan. 3, 2011.

• U.S. Newswire
• October 29, 2010

• Monday, Jan. 9, 2011: Heating Assistance, the Maine State Science Fair and Mitt Romney

Neighbors helping neighbors Much has been printed, in both letters to the editor and news articles, about the upcoming reduction in the federal government's Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Indeed, this funding reduction will hurt many Mainers of moderate and low incomes. The state may try to help, but it is trying to balance its own budget and therefore may not be of much help. In the end, the funding will fall on local people helping other local people.

• Bangor Daily News
• January 09, 2012

• Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program: State Median Income Estimate for Four-Person Family for Federal Fiscal Year 2009

• FR, March 05, 2008
• Notices
• Children and Families Administration

• Assistance to the Poor As Congress Returns to Debate a Hot Topic.

Maine's poor face a winter of higher energy bills and less government help, as Congress and the Obama administration prepare to debate funding levels for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP. The arrival of cooler evenings, and the return of Congress from summer recess, will sharpen the focus on a controversy that erupted last February, when President Barack Obama proposed cutting the program back to 2008 levels.

• Portland Press Herald
• September 06, 2011

• State Median Income Estimate for a Four-Person Family: Federal Fiscal Year 2010 State Median Income Estimates for Use Under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program

• FR, March 13, 2009
• Notices
• Children and Families Administration

• Statement by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Regarding the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).

WASHINGTON -- I am very disturbed by the findings in an upcoming GAO report on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) that found insta...

• Business Wire
• June 18, 2010

• Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: ACF Grantee Survey of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program

• FR, March 29, 2010
• Notices
• Children and Families Administration