By Bob Katzen

The Healey Administration announced that the Trump Administration, after a month-long delay, released federal funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and that all applications can now be processed. LIHEAP is a federal program, referred to as the Massachusetts Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) in Massachusetts, that helps more than 150,000 Massachusetts households, representing over 300,000 people, afford to heat their homes during the winter each year.

“Home energy assistance is one of the most important tools we have to keep people safe in the winter,” said Housing and Livable Communities Secretary Ed Augustus. “For many of the households we serve each year, HEAP is the difference between a warm home and an impossible choice between heat, food and medicine. Now that this funding has been released, our team and our local partners are moving quickly so that seniors, families with children and people with disabilities can get the help they need as the cold weather sets in.”