The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP): Program and Funding

The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance program (LIHEAP), established in 1981 by Title XXVI of P.L. 97-35 is a block grant program under which the federal government gives states, territories, and tribes annual grants to operate home energy assistance programs for low-income households. While funding authorization for LIHEAP expired with FY2004, Congress appropriated $2.182 billion for the program in FY2005. Then, on August 8, 2005, the President signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-58), which reauthorizes LIHEAP from FY2005-FY2007. For FY2006, the House passed an appropriations bill (H.R. 3010) that proposes $2.007 billion for the program, and the Senate Appropriations Committee has approved $2.183 billion (S.Rept. 109-103). In FY2003, the most current year for which data could be obtained from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), an estimated 4.8 million households received help meeting heating costs (i.e. heating assistance and/or winter/year-round crisis assistance). In FY2003 more than 493,000 households received cooling assistance, and over 71,000 received summer crisis aid. The amount of overlap between households that received cooling aid and summer crisis aid is not known; thus an estimated number of households that received aid related to cooling (comparable to those receiving aid with heating costs) is not available. Finally, 111,000 households received weatherization assistance through LIHEAP in FY2003.


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