Tag: HEAP

Acting Commissioner of the Division of Health & Family Services, Joseph Todora has announced that a second HEAP Emergency Benefit for heat and heat-related emergencies will be available effective immediately. The second emergency benefit amounts will be the same as the first emergency benefits amount. “We are very pleased that the Federal Government has decided to release this additional funding considering the coldness of this late winter, we look forward to helping our most vulnerable Sullivan County residents,” said Acting Commissioner Joseph Todora

Hauppauge, NY - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- County Executive Bellone reminds Suffolk County residents, who are eligible, to participate in HEAP, a federally funded program that issues heating benefits to supplement a household’s annual energy cost

November 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor David A. Paterson today continued his efforts to urge the Federal government to fund the Federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) at last year's level of $5.1 billion. If Congress does not provide adequate LIHEAP funding and the President does not release $590 million in contingency funds as a stopgap measure, the State's Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) will be forced to discontinue heating assistance to vulnerable low income New Yorkers in January.

CORNING, NY - November 2, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today Congressman Eric Massa highlighted the beginning of the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) application period.

Albany, NY - June 1, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — The State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) announced today that a record number of families throughout New York State were served through the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) this past winter, based on applications received prior to the recent closing date for the program.