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(HEAP) Home Energy Assistance Program
http://www.otda.state.ny.us/main/heap
(Click on hyperlink for latest program updates)
HEAP may help you pay for Electricity, Propane, Natural Gas, Wood, Oil, Kerosene, Coal, or any other heating fuel.
HEAP is a federally funded program that issues heating benefits to supplement a households annual energy cost. HEAP also offers an emergency benefit for households in a heat or heat related energy emergency. Additionally, HEAP offers a furnace repair and/or replacement benefit for households with inoperable heating equipment.
Regular Benefit
The HEAP regular benefit component assists low-income New Yorkers with the cost of heating their homes.
The HEAP emergency benefit component assists qualifying low-income New Yorkers who are facing a heat or heat related energy emergency and do not have the resources available to resolve the emergency. The Emergency Benefit component of the 2009-10 HEAP program will open on November 2, 2009.
Click on the blue hyperlink above to find out when new applications will become available.
Furnace Repair or Replacement
The HEAP Furnace Repair and Replacement Component is available to help low-income homeowners repair or replace furnaces, boilers, and other direct heating components necessary to keep the home's primary heating source functional. The HEAP Furnace Repair and Replacement Component is open from October 1, 2009 until September 30, 2010.
How do I apply for HEAP?
During the period that a HEAP benefit component is open, low-income New Yorkers may apply for HEAP in person, by mail, over the phone, and on the internet. Check your potential eligibility for HEAP and a wide range of economic supports at: myBenefits.ny.gov.
Questions about HEAP program should be directed to your Local Department of Social Services Office or the NYS
Call the HEAP Hotline at 1-800-342-3009
*** Family Fuel & Heating is an Authorized HEAP Vendor ***
Project Warmth, Long Island's Emergency Heating Fund
http://www.unitedwayli.org/project_warmth.asp
Basic Eligibility Requirements (include, but are not limited to):
· Applicant must have residency in Nassau County, Suffolk County or the Rockaway area in Queens.
· Applicant must show a heating and/or fuel-related electric bill in his or her name and address that is in termination, pending disconnect or severely overdue (for any fuel source) or be financially unable to secure heating oil/propane/kerosene etc. when the tank is empty or near empty.
· Applicant must demonstrate financial hardship and provide an acceptable explanation for arrears.
· Applicant may only receive fuel and/or fuel-related electric assistance once per program year.
. Applicants eligible for Emergency HEAP must apply to HEAP prior to applying to Project Warmth. Upon receiving a termination notice, the applicant must immediately apply for Emergency HEAP.
An Emergency HEAP approval provides gas/electric customers with a 30-day hold on terminations, allowing for time to apply for Project Warmth and make deferred payment arrangements with the vendor.
·Project Warmth is open for grants from December1 until funds are depleted.
Inelidgible conditions include:
· Bill not in applicants name or applicant not in residence at billing address.
· Declining to apply for HEAP assistance when qualified.
· Nonactive account.
· Non fuel-related electricity accounts (heat included in rent).
· Current bill with no past due amount, or if a HEAP grant satisfies the past due amount.
· SSI recipients who may receive an SSI guarantee at the Dept. of Social Service to eliminate the emergency
situation.
· Topped oil tank during a prior Project Warmth grant period.
Applications are not sent out or received by mail. PLEASE NOTE, a referral is not a guarantee of acceptance. The Project Warmth agency staff will determine eligibility based on the documentation provided by the applicant and more detailed application requirements than are listed above.
Call United Way of Long Island at 631.940.3757
Citizens Energy Oil Program
http://www.citizensenergy.com
Energy Oil Program
The Citizens Energy Oil Heat Program has delivered millions of gallons of discount home heating oil to poor and elderly households in Massachusetts and other cold weather states since 1979. This unique program helps protect needy families from volatile heating oil prices, which often leave households having to choose between heating the home and paying for other life essentials, such as food, health care, or clothing.
What is the Oil Heat Program?
In partnership with CITGO, Citizens Energy works with thousands of oil heat dealers and local fuel assistance agencies in 24 states to provide deliveries of home heating oil to those in need. This year the Oil Heat Program provided eligible families a one-time delivery of 100 gallons of home heating oil.
Why is the Program Needed?
In states like Massachusetts, heating oil prices have increased considerably since 2000, yet the wages for low-income families and individuals have remained stagnant. The federal government provides some help to low-income families struggling to stay warm during the winter through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), but this assistance historically has reached only about one in five eligible families. And many other working poor families who do not qualify for federal assistance programs still need help from time to time.
Low-income families have little choice but to cut back on food, medicine, and other life essentials when their home energy costs rise. Bad choices lead to bad outcomes. When the heating bills of poor families rise, studies show they often reduce their spending on food by about the same amount, and it is no surprise that cases of undernourished children increase by about one-third during winter months.
The Citizens Energy Oil Heat Program works to provide struggling families with a bit of relief when temperatures hit freezing and high heating oil prices force families to make difficult and often unsafe trade-offs.
The Citizen's Program will start accepting applications on January 24th, 2011
Please call 1-877-563-4645 at that time for they will only accept applications via phone
Call Family Fuel & Heating at 516-678-1227
HEAP Application
