áHEAPá BENEFITS AS PART OF THIS YEAR'S FUEL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. <JIM INTRO-19.06.00> "WITH THE COST OF A GALLON OF HOME HEATING OIL NOW APPROACHING $5.50 A GALLON, MAINERS ARE GETTING NERVOUS." 8-INVESTIGATES RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM A LEWISTON WOMAN TALKING ABOUT HER FRUSTRATION IN SIGNING UP FOR THE HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (HEAP). INCOME-QUALIFIED MAINERS CAN RECEIVE A $500 CREDIT TOWARD THEIR OIL BILL. SHE WAS TOLD SHE NEEDED TO HAVE AN ACCOUNT WITH ONE OF THE LARGER OIL COMPANIES THAT ARE PART OF THE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM- BUT WHEN SHE CALLED, SHE WAS TOLD THOSE COMPANIES AREN'T ACCEPTING NEW ACCOUNTS AT THIS TIME. SO WE WENT TO THE SOURCE COMMUNITY CONCEPTS WHICH ORGANIZES THE HEAP PROGRAM. <SOT-SANDY ALBERT/COMMUNITY CONCEPTS-18.48.09> THEY SHOULD CONTACT THEIR COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY WE CAN HELP HER WORK THROUGH THAT PROCESS. BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO TURN ANYBODY - THERE ARE OTHER FUNDING THAT MAY BE AVAILABLE TO HER THAT DOESN'T GO THROUGH FUEL ASSISTANCE." AND WHILE THE APPLICATION PROCESS MAY BE DAUNTING, THEY SAY THE MESSAGE IS DON'T GIVE UP. <SOT-SANDY ALBERT/COMMUNITY CONCEPTS-18.49.04> "IF THEY HAVE LESS THAN AN EIGHTH OF A TANK OF OIL, WE WANT TO TALK WITH THEM, BECAUSE IT COULD BECOME AN EMERGENCY SITUATION PRETTY QUICKLY." NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO THESE DAYS - PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE OIL PRICES. <SOT-JEFF KHUMALO/LEWISTON- 19.10.00> "THE OIL IS TOO EXPENSIVE." THE FLAHERTY FAMILY FROM WESTERN MAINE TOWN OF ROXBURY WERE SO WORRIED ABOUT OIL PRICES. <SOT-JUSTIN FLAHERTY/ROXBURY, MAINE-19.08.39> "WE ACTUALLY INSTALLED OUR SECOND PELLET STOVE. PRICES KIND OF MADE US UNEASY SO WE WENT AN ALTERNATE ROUTE - SEE HOW THAT GOES FOR US." <SOT-SANDY ALBERT/COMMUNITY CONCEPTS-18.53.29> "FOLKS IN MAINE ARE REALLY PROUD AND A LOT OF THEM DON'T ASK FOR ASSISTANCE. THE FUNDING IS AVAILABLE AND IT'S NOT TAKING AWAY FROM SOMEONE ELSE. I HEAR THAT A LOT." <JIM TAG-19.07.14> THE BOTTOM LINE IS THERE ARE OTHER EMERGENCY FUNDS AVAILABLE OUTSIDE OF THE HEAP PROGRAM AND BEGINNING ON NOVEMBER FIRST TH
Cost of heating lipid approaches $5.50 a gallon arsenic Mainers look challenges signing up for assistance
With the outgo of a gallon of location heating lipid present approaching $5.50 a gallon, immoderate Mainers are getting nervous.8 Investigates received an email from a Lewiston pistillate talking astir her vexation successful signing up for the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP). That programme allows for income-qualified Mainers to person a $500 recognition toward their lipid bill.The pistillate was told she needed to person an relationship with 1 of the larger lipid companies that are portion of the assistance program, but she said erstwhile she called those larger companies, she was told, “they aren't accepting caller accounts astatine this time."We went to the source: Community Concepts, based successful Lewiston, which organizes the HEAP program."They should interaction their assemblage enactment agency, we tin assistance her enactment done that process," said Sandy Albert, manager of lodging and vigor astatine Community Concepts. "Because we don't privation to crook anybody away, there's different backing that whitethorn beryllium disposable to her that doesn't spell done substance assistance."While the exertion process whitethorn beryllium daunting, Community Concepts said the connection is "don't springiness up.""If they person little than an eighth of a vessel of oil, we privation to speech with them, due to the fact that it could go an exigency concern beauteous quickly," Albert said.No substance wherever you spell these days, radical are talking astir lipid prices."The lipid is excessively expensive," said Jeff Khumalo of Lewiston.The Flaherty household from the occidental Maine municipality of Roxbury were besides disquieted astir lipid prices."We really installed our 2nd pellet stove. Prices benignant of made america uneasy truthful we went an alternate route," said Justin Flaherty. "See however that goes for us."Community Concepts is trying to scope and assistance arsenic galore radical arsenic it can."Folks successful Maine are truly arrogant and a batch of them don't inquire for assistance. The backing is disposable and it's not taking distant from idiosyncratic else. I perceive that a lot," Albert said.The bottommost enactment is determination are different exigency funds disposable extracurricular of the HEAP programme and opening connected Nov. 1, the exigency telephone enactment opens. For much accusation sojourn MaineHousing.org.
With the outgo of a gallon of location heating lipid present approaching $5.50 a gallon, immoderate Mainers are getting nervous.
8 Investigates received an email from a Lewiston pistillate talking astir her vexation successful signing up for the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP). That programme allows for income-qualified Mainers to person a $500 recognition toward their lipid bill.
The pistillate was told she needed to person an relationship with 1 of the larger lipid companies that are portion of the assistance program, but she said erstwhile she called those larger companies, she was told, “they aren't accepting caller accounts astatine this time."
We went to the source: Community Concepts, based successful Lewiston, which organizes the HEAP program.
"They should interaction their assemblage enactment agency, we tin assistance her enactment done that process," said Sandy Albert, manager of lodging and vigor astatine Community Concepts. "Because we don't privation to crook anybody away, there's different backing that whitethorn beryllium disposable to her that doesn't spell done substance assistance."
While the exertion process whitethorn beryllium daunting, Community Concepts said the connection is "don't springiness up."
"If they person little than an eighth of a vessel of oil, we privation to speech with them, due to the fact that it could go an exigency concern beauteous quickly," Albert said.
No substance wherever you spell these days, radical are talking astir lipid prices.
"The lipid is excessively expensive," said Jeff Khumalo of Lewiston.
The Flaherty household from the occidental Maine municipality of Roxbury were besides disquieted astir lipid prices.
"We really installed our 2nd pellet stove. Prices benignant of made america uneasy truthful we went an alternate route," said Justin Flaherty. "See however that goes for us."
Community Concepts is trying to scope and assistance arsenic galore radical arsenic it can.
"Folks successful Maine are truly arrogant and a batch of them don't inquire for assistance. The backing is disposable and it's not taking distant from idiosyncratic else. I perceive that a lot," Albert said.
The bottommost enactment is determination are different exigency funds disposable extracurricular of the HEAP programme and opening connected Nov. 1, the exigency telephone enactment opens. For much accusation sojourn MaineHousing.org.
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