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Heating Assistance Programs Are Closing Earlier Than Expected

Across several states, seniors are discovering that heating assistance programs are under pressure this year. Retirees who depend on these programs—especially LIHEAP and local utility...

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8 Discount Programs Seniors Can Use on Winter Utility Bills

Winter utility bills often rise sharply, creating financial stress for seniors living on fixed incomes. Heating, electricity, and water costs can consume a large portion...

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6 Government and Utility Programs That Can Help With High Power Costs

Find out how these federal, state and provider-specific programs can help households struggling with energy bills.

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Long-awaited $3.6B in heating assistance released to states and tribes

The federal government has released about $3.6 billion in delayed funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP

The Independent UK

Trump was already cutting low-income energy assistance – the shutdown is making things worse as cold weather arrives

As fall turns to winter and temperatures begin to drop, millions of people across the U.S. will struggle to pay their rising energy bills. The government shutdown is making matters even worse: Several states have pushed back the start of their winter energy assistance because their federally allocated funds had…

The Conversation

Government shutdown threatens to delay home heating aid for millions of low-income families

Millions of low-income families may face delays in receiving home heating aid due to the ongoing federal government shutdown

The Independent UK

Fears of heat-rationing for millions in US as shutdown delays energy aid

Most vulnerable families could be without critical energy assistance, experts warn, as electricity and gas bills surge

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As summers grow deadlier, here's what to know about utility shutoffs

As the cost of electricity outpaces inflation, consumer advocates are sounding alarms about the risks to low-income people who can't afford consistent air conditioning in deadly heat

The Independent UK

Why These States Are Slashing Utility Subsidies for Seniors

In a time when the cost of living is rising faster than most retirement incomes, many seniors have come to rely on utility subsidies just...

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Trump promised to lower energy costs – his tax bill will raise them for people in red states the most

Household energy bills in some Republican-leaning states could rise by more than $600 every year, analysis of the so-called ‘big, beautiful bill’ finds

The Guardian - US

Poor Families Face Freezing Risks As Trump Admin's Budget Eliminates 'Vital' Program Keeping Them Warm in the Winter

The Trump administration's 2026 budget request cuts funding for an essential assistance program which helps poor families stay warm during the winter months.

International Business Times

Trump moves to gut low-income energy assistance as summer heat descends and electricity prices rise

The U.S. is headed into what forecasters expect to be one of the hottest summers on record, and millions of people across the country will struggle to pay their power bills as temperatures and energy costs rise.

The Conversation

At HHS, proposed cuts to medical research and public health programs - Roll Call

The White House on Friday proposed a fiscal 2026 HHS budget that backs the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda of President Donald Trump.

Roll Call

RFK Jr urged to release nearly $400m allocated to help families combat heat

As part of Trump’s administrations ‘efficiency’ drive, staff running decades-old program for energy assistance laid off

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Funds to Help Low-Income Families With Summer Electric Bills Are Stretched Thin

A federal program helps people in poverty cover the costs of heat and cooling. But advocates say it disadvantages states like Texas, even though extreme heat is a key cause of weather-related deaths.

The Texas Tribune

A federal utility assistance program favors cold-weather states, giving less money to hot places like Texas

The program helps low-income people with heating and cooling bills, but advocates say it disadvantages Texas and other warm-weather states, even though extreme heat is a key cause of weather-related deaths.

WEKU

Drop in temps from December to January causing sticker-shock for some utility customers; Kentucky’

Some Kentuckians who just opened their utility bills got a dose of sticker-shock, thanks to a January that was much colder than December. That’s a real problem for people with low or fixed incomes.

Chicago Sun-Times

People say they were taken for a ride by alternative energy suppliers. How you can protect yourself.

Despite new consumer protections, people are still complaining about higher bills and questionable business tactics. Sticking with your gas or electricity utility is usually a better deal, experts say.

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Becerra, White House release $3.7 billion in home heating aid - Roll Call

The Biden administration is releasing 90 percent of the fiscal 2024 allocated funding for LIHEAP, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

WEKU

LIHEAP energy assistance fund applications still available following one of hottest summers on recor

Applications for Kentucky’s Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are still available as one of the hottest summers on record comes to a close.

The Independent UK

Millions scramble to afford energy bills amid heat waves, but federal program to help falls short

As climate change ratchets up temperatures across the U.S., millions of the poorest Americans grapple with enduring perilous heat or paying costly air conditioning bills

Chicago Sun-Times

Secret ‘risk rankings’ unfairly target struggling customers for faster gas, electricity cutoffs, consumer groups say

Utilities use data and algorithms to sort customers and determine how quickly gas and electricity is turned off for non-payment. “We think there’s a strong argument that this process is discriminatory,” one advocate says.

WEKU

Kentucky community action agencies open fall applications for heating assistance

Chicago Tribune

Climate change is turning air conditioning into a matter of life and death. But government help is lacking

CHICAGO — If it were up to Jacques Wallace, no Chicagoan would find a loved one dead of heat stress, without air conditioning, ever again.

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