LIHEAP

LIHEAP Funding Formula

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Summer Heat Will Worsen the Pandemic for poor Communities

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LIHEAP State Sheet - New Jersey 2020

This fact sheet provides numbers for the following in New Jersey:

Gross LIHEAP allocation to New Jersey in 2017
# of households eligible for LIHEAP in New Jersey
# of low-income households that received LIHEAP in New Jersey in 2017
% change in LIHEAP funding in

COVID-19 Emergency Relief Package – Topline Summary of New Agreement

On December 21st, the House and Senate passed the Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020 after a weekend of high-level negotiating between leadership. Unfortunately, specific funding for LIHEAP is not expected to be included in the package. However, the option for utility assistance...Read more

Senators call for quick release of LIHEAP funds

This article includes background information on how the three stimulus bills passed to provide economic relief due to COVID-19 impacts LIHEAP. It describes a letter produced by a collective of 28 U.S. senators, based on data from a report produced by NEADA. Read more

LIHEAP State Sheet - Maryland 2020

This fact sheet provides numbers for the following:

Gross LIHEAP allocation to Maryland in 2017
# of households eligible for LIHEAP in Maryland
# of low-income households that received LIHEAP in Maryland in 2017
% change in LIHEAP funding in Maryland from FY10

LIHEAP and Utility Assistance Funding Status: Regular & Pandemic-Related Funding

This document, created by NEADA, outlines both regular and pandemic related funding for LIHEAP and other utility assistance that have been released or appropriated since the COVID-19 began. Appropriated funds that are pending release include $4.5 billion in additional funding for LIHEAP through...Read more

Senate Bill Includes $500M Additional For LIHEAP, Creates Water Pilots

On August 10th, 2021 the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill which adds $500 Million for LIHEAP Over 5 Year, provides $3.5B for WAP, and creates Water Assistance Needs Study & 40 Pilot Projects. The WAP increase is a ten-fold increase in the...Read more

What COVID Taught Us About Reliable Energy & Healthy Homes

This artifact discusses the overlap between the COVID-19 crisis and the housing and utility affordability crisis. Avila begins by citing statistics for housing and utility debt accumulated during the pandemic, and articualtes how this debt and the housing and utility crisis as a whole mirrors...Read more

March Staff Picks - Morgan Sarao

The artifacts that I chose throughout March discuss policy relating to crisis and crisis recovery on the federal level and in Philadelphia. The artifacts regarding federal policy were chosen after sifting through articles that resulted from google searches using the key words “LIHEAP” “...Read more

LIHEAP State Sheet - Pennsylvania 2020

This fact sheet provides numbers for the following in Pennsylvania:

Gross LIHEAP allocation to Pennsylvania in 2017
# of households eligible for LIHEAP in Pennsylvania
# of low-income households that received LIHEAP in Pennsylvania in 2017
% change in LIHEAP

Recognition of and response to energy poverty in the United States

This source was recently published and is an overview of energy poverty as seen in the United States and compared to the UK.Read more

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