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. Funding authorization for LIHEAP expired with FY2004; however, Congress appropriated $2.182 billion for the program in FY2005, and the House Appropriations committee has proposed $1.985 billion for the program in FY2006. In FY2002, the most current year for which data could be obtained from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), an estimated 4.4 million households received help meeting heating costs (i.e. heating assistance and/or winter/year-round crisis assistance). Also in FY2002 more than 570,000 households received cooling assistance, and close to 108,000 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, more than 93,000 households received weatherization assistance through LIHEAP in FY2002.


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