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

In FY2010, the House- and Senate Appropriations Committee-passed appropriations bills (H.R. 3293) would fund LIHEAP at the same levels as FY2009, with $4.5 billion distributed as regular funds and $590 million as contingency funds. H.R. 3293 would also maintain the distribution of regular funds set out in the FY2009 appropriations act, when approximately $840 million was allocated according to the "new" LIHEAP formula and the remainder-approximately $3.67 billion-was distributed according to the proportions of the "old" formula. The amount for LIHEAP in H.R. 3293 exceeds the President's request of $2.41 billion for LIHEAP regular funds and $790 million for contingency funds. The FY2010 Administration budget also proposed to create a trigger for additional LIHEAP funds to be released when energy prices increase above a certain level; this proposal would have resulted in an estimated $450 million in mandatory spending. Neither version of H.R. 3293 includes the President's trigger. This report describes LIHEAP funding, current issues, legislation, program rules, and eligibility. It will be updated as events warrant.


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